Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rossanean (magunihy By., Molahiffe Par.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossanean (magunihy By., Molahiffe Par.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.15379, -9.51907
- SMR number
- KE048-092----
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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 W-facing slope. A roughly subcircular area (42.1m E-W; 38.7m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.25m) E-NNE and by a NW-SE field drain which truncates the NE sector. A fosse (D 0.1m) is traceable E-NNE. There is a possible causeway entrance (Wth 1.6m) at S. The field boundary immediately outside the field drain may incorporate some original bank material. There is a possible hut site (KE048-092001-) in the N sector. (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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.