Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknamucklagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknamucklagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Liscappul
- Coordinates
- 52.14763, -9.61982
- SMR number
- KE048-076----
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 pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A circular area (c. 33.5m N-S; c. 33m E-W) defined by two earthen banks, an intervening fosse and an outer fosse. The inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.15m) has numerous cattle gaps. The intervening fosse (Wth c. 2.2m) is evident all around. The outer bank (Wth 3.4m) survives N-NW. An internal ledge (Wth 2m) near the base of the internal face of the outer bank survives all round. The outer fosse is evident S-WNW as a slight slope down to the base of the outer bank. A field boundary skirts the outer bank along the N arc. The uneven interior slopes down to the SE. There is a possible entrance through the inner (Wth 3m) and outer (Wth c. 1.6m) banks at SSE. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.