Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rath Beg (magunihy By., Kilnanare Ed),rath More (magunihy By., Kilnanare Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath Beg (magunihy By., Kilnanare Ed),rath More (magunihy By., Kilnanare Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17267, -9.66041
- SMR number
- KE047-115----
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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 level pasture on the S side of the River Maine. A roughly D-shaped area (dims. c. 220m N-S) with a straight N side (L c. 160m) is enclosed by the River Maine at N, by an inner bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.1m) on which trees grow intermittently, by a fosse (Wth 5.6m) and by an outer bank (Wth 4.9m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.4m) along the S arc (L 50m) and is largely obscured by briars and bushes. The fosse has been modified for use as a farm road (Wth 3.5m) SWN and the banks on either side have been modified for use as field boundaries with stone inclusions. A dense cover of briars and thorn bushes obscures these field boundaries. The enclosing element NSE is gone, but can be discerned by intermittent traces of a low bank. It is shown as a light coloured curve on the aerial photograph taken soon after the bank was removed. The bank on the N side resulted from spoil during drainage works on the River Maine.
Compiled by: Connie Murphy
Date of upload: 21 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.