Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintermon, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintermon
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.15523, -10.03578
- SMR number
- KE045-061----
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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. c. 31.5m E-W.
A circular univallate rath KE045-061---- situated on a fairly level tract of land overlooking the Anascaul valley to NW. The earthen enclosing bank survives only in the NE and W quadrants. It is a maximum of 1.3m high externally and .6m high internally, and is c. 2.2m wide at base. Around the remainder of the perimeter the enclosure is defined by a low scarp, no more than .5m high. There are faint traces of a fosse along the NE quadrant. A small depression directly inside the bank at W marks the entrance to the souterrain KE045-061001- which Ashe (1954, 21) described as 'a very extensive labyrinth of subterranean passages'.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 307. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.