Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boolacullane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolacullane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.15073, -9.54616
- SMR number
- KE048-085----
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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 N-facing slope. A roughly circular area (c. 25.5m N-S) defined by a partially levelled bank (int. H 0.6m) E-NNE with an external fosse (D 0.5m) ESE-WNW. The bank is low externally. The interior slopes down to the N and is truncated at NE by a trackway. According to local information, the rath was levelled in the 1950s. It was indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) truncated at N by an E-W field boundary and on the 1897 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) just S of the E-W field boundary and truncated NE-E by a NNW-SSE trackway. This rath is probably one of the three forts in Boolacullane that are mentioned in the 1840s as 'Lissnacrath, Lissoughter, and the other not known by any particular name' (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 20). There is a standing stone (KE048-086----) c. 90m to the 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.