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Ringfort - rath

Glanballyma, County Kerry, Ireland

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Townland
Glanballyma
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.35599, -9.60620
SMR number
KE022-015----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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