Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glanballyma, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanballyma
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.35887, -9.60997
- SMR number
- KE022-011----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a W-facing slope. A circular area (46.8m NNE-SSE; 46m ESE-WNW) enclosed by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.35m; Wth 5.6m) and external fosse along the SE arc and by a scarped edge elsewhere. The interior slopes to the W with a long narrow depression (L 13m; Wth 6.5m; D 0.55m), possibly indicating the presence of a collapsed souterrain, in the SW quadrant.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 28 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.