Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lecarhoo, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarhoo
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Liscarrantrumpa
- Latest-edition OS map
- Liscarrantrumpa
- Coordinates
- 52.14638, -9.64815
- SMR number
- KE047-075----
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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
In pasture, on a NW-facing slope. A circular area (38m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8.3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.6m) N-W. The bank has been levelled W-N where the ground slopes gently down from the interior to the surrounding field. An external fosse (Wth c. 2.4m; D 0.6m) is evident SW-W but is covered by overgrowth. The interior slopes down to the NNW. There is a circular depression (diam. 2m; D 0.4m) in the NW quadrant of the interior. Field boundaries radiate from the N, SSW and W arcs of the rath.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.