Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glanballyma, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanballyma
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.35599, -9.60620
- SMR number
- KE022-015----
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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 S-facing slope. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map (1892) map as an oval circular area (c. 34m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a bank WSW-ESE and indicated by a broken curved line ESE-WSW. The interior is cut by a field boundary on an E-W axis just S of centre with a possible mound and a linear feature depicted in the S half. On the 1st ed. (1841) OS 6-inch map a ‘cave’, suggesting the presence of a souterrain (KE022-015001-), is depicted within the interior at W. No visible surface traces of the ringfort or souterrain were evident when surveyed in 1985.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 28 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.