Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gurteenroe, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gurteenroe
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.17370, -9.57123
- SMR number
- KE048-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a N-facing slope. This possible rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m). It is indicated on the 1897 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), open at NE where the terminals of the bank extend a short distance E to join a NNW-SSE field boundary. The remains consist of a poorly defined area (c. 50m E-W) defined by the slight remains of an arc of bank E-S, by a field boundary SW-W and by a natural scarp along the N arc. The Farranfore-Molahiffe railway, indicated on the 1897 OS 6-inch map abutting the SW arc of this possible rath, has since been removed. (CDAS; O'Hare 2000, 90)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.