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Ringfort - rath

Breanshagh, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Breanshagh, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Breanshagh
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.18666, -9.65138
SMR number
KE047-018----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a W-facing slope, towards the top of a low rise. An arc (c. 36m N-S) of a bank (Wth 9m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) defines an area (36m N-S; 18m E-W) S-NW on the W side of a field boundary. No remains of the rath are visible on the E side of the field boundary. The rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) while on the 1894 OS 6-inch map only the W half is indicated. According to local information, it was levelled in the 1990s. This may be the rath, called 'Parknalassa fort', which was recorded in the 1840s as being in the S of Breanshagh townland (OSNB, Molahiffe no. 1, 29).

Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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