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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14973, -9.53749
- SMR number
- KE048-088----
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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 steep NNE-facing slope. A circular area (19m NNW-SSE; 18.2m WSW-ENE) defined by a low rise (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.4m) SSW-E and by a curving field boundary incorporated into the bank E-SSW. The interior slopes gently down to the NNW. The opening to a souterrain (KE048-088001-) is in the remains of the levelled bank at NW. An ENE-WSW trackway lies immediately outside the SE arc. This is probably one of three forts in Boolacullane, mentioned in the 1840s as 'Lissnacrath, Lissoughter, and the other not known by any particular name' (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 20). This may be 'Lisnacrath fort' which was recorded as having a 'cavern' and being a 'few chains North of Lissnaclinna' (ibid., 40). (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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.