Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skahies, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skahies
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.15027, -9.55788
- SMR number
- KE048-081----
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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 S-facing slope. A circular area (26.9m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a partially levelled bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.1m) ESE-NE and by the faint trace of a bank NE-ESE. A slight trace of a fosse is visible S-NE. The interior slopes down to the S. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a multivallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) and on the 1897 OS 6-inch map as a bivallate circular enclosure (diam c. 35m). (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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.