Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockaneacoolteen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaneacoolteen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisbeg
- Coordinates
- 52.20685, -9.61416
- SMR number
- KE039-089----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a slight S-facing slope. The rath is inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. An overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.7m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.1m) are visible along the N arc where the overgrowth is less dense. The rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map abutted by a NNW-SSE field boundary at W. On the 1893 OS 6-inch map the field boundary at W is depicted as truncating the SW arc of the rath. A large bivallate rath, named 'Lismore' (KE039-088001-), lies c. 80m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.