Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

Internal diam. 61.8m ENE-WSW, 48.5m NNW-SSE
Lismore/An Lios Mór: A large, roughly oval enclosure situated on a gentle NNW facing slope of Flemingstown mountain. The single earthen enclosing bank is a maximum of .8m high internally and 1.55m high externally and averages 2.2 to 2.8m in width at base. It is disturbed and partly removed along the S side where a NE-SW field wall skirts its outer edge. The bank has also been removed for a distance of 23m at N. There are slight traces of an external fosse on either side of this latter gap. It is not clear where the original entrance was located.
The remains of a small sub-rectangular hut are located directly W of the large N gap. A low bank of earth and stones encloses an area 2.5m x 3.2m in extent. The bank is up to .5m high and c. 1.1m wide, and either of the gaps in the E and S walls could represent the original entrance. The remainder of the interior of the rath is occupied by a series of NW-SE cultivation ridges.

The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 423. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 7 August 2013