Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
An Bhánóg Theas, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Bhánóg Theas
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.15435, -10.12940
- SMR number
- KE044-046----
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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
Internal diam. 22m
This univallate rath is located at the head of a small valley, on a SE facing slope which overlooks Ballynasare. It is shown on the 1st edition of the OS map as a circular enclosure, but the NW half of its outline is no longer discernible. It occupies the NW corner of a field and its N and W sides are now bounded by straight field walls. Its S side is defined by a step up to the interior of 1.1m, and the earthen enclosing bank is preserved only along the E side where it is 1.5m high externally, .8m high internally and c. 2m wide. The SE facing entrance is 3.5m wide.
The centre of the enclosure is occupied by the remains of a circular structure, 9m in diameter. Its ruined wall is c. 1 to 1.5m wide and less than .5m high.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 346. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 6 August 2013
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.