Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cill Chuáin, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Chuáin
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.20937, -10.31228
- SMR number
- KE034-140----
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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 diam. 25m E-W, 12.7m N-S
A semi-circular univallate rath perched on the edge of the cliff which forms the S bank of the Feohanagh river. To N it is bounded by the stone wall which skirts the cliff edge and to S it is surrounded by an earthen bank and fosse. The bank is 2.25m high internally and 4.2m wide at base. The fosse is 3.4m wide and rises 3.25m to the crest of the bank and 1.15m to the external ground level. There is a slight suggestion of a causeway across the fosse at SE, but the bank has been removed along this SE sector and the entrance gap is ill-defined. A low stony mound in the interior may consist of dump material from the removal of this bank. A 4.2m wide gap at SW has no corresponding causeway across the fosse and may be secondary.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 477. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.