Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cnoc An Bhróigín Thiar, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cnoc An Bhróigín Thiar
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.16506, -10.31300
- SMR number
- KE043-133----
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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. 26.7m
Lisnapreaghaun/Lios na bPréachán: A circular univallate rath situated about 400m W of KE043-131----, on the S slopes of Knockavrogeen. It is enclosed by an earthen bank and a shallow external fosse. The fosse averages 3m in width and its outer edge is surmounted by a field fence along the N sector. The bank reaches a maximum height of 3.15m at S. The entrance gap at SE is 1.85m wide. Three stones on the inner side of the entrance may be the remains of a pathway, and a couple of stones in the outer face of the bank, directly S of the entrance, may be the remains of a drystone revetment. There are a few ill-defined features in the interior but no definite traces of hut-sites.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 490. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.