Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacourty, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.15265, -10.07513
- SMR number
- KE044-113----
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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. 32m E-W, 25m N-S
A D-shaped rath situated on a S facing slope with good open views in all directions. The external fosse can be traced around the entire perimeter, but is best-preserved along the straight N side where it is protected by the field wall which skirts its outer edge. It is 3m wide and .6m deep. The earthen bank is c. 2m wide and a maximum of 1.75m high. There is a 1.6m wide break through the bank at SE. The mounds and depressions in the interior do not form any recognisable pattern. Ashe (1954, 8) described the site as a bivallate enclosure with a practically demolished outer bank. There is now no trace of the latter, nor is it marked on the OS maps.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 331. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.