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Ringfort - rath

Cloonnafinneela, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonnafinneela, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloonnafinneela
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.34160, -9.60472
SMR number
KE022-026----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 N-facing slope. A circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.9m) and external fosse (D 0.2m). The bank and fosse are best preserved along the SE arc with the traces of a possible counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.35m) along the outer edge of fosse S-WSW. The ringfort is bisected by an earthen field boundary (H 1.2m) with a drain (Wth 1.8m; D 0.35m) on either side; this cuts through the interior on a rough NW-SE axis leaving about two thirds of the monument, which is heavily masked by vegetation cover, to the E of the boundary. There are breaks in the bank at E (Wth 2.6m), S (Wth 3m) and N (Wth 4.5m). Black earth and heat shattered stone (KE022-026001-), suggesting a possible fulacht fia, are visible in the area of the fosse at WNW.

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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