Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dinneens, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dinneens
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.34984, -9.79282
- SMR number
- KE020-027----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Internal diameter 23.3m N-S, 24m E-W
This circular univallate rath is situated in the corner of a field and fieldbanks immediately bound this site to the N and E. The enclosing bank, constructed of earth and stone, is c 7m wide and rises to an average of 1.2m above the interior and 1.8m above the external ground level. The SW sector of the enclosing bank has been levelled and manure is now dumped at this point. A very slight trace of an exterior fosse c 2m wide can be noted to the N for 18m. In the NW sector of the interior, which is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land, is an oblong mound, its long axis running NE-SW; it is 1.8m wide x 9.8m long internally. This could possibly be the remains of a house-site (KE020-027001-). A clump of stones has been dumped in the interior in recent times.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 678. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.