Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Scart (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scart (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.14596, -9.54507
- SMR number
- KE048-093----
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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 with views NW to the Slieve Mish Mountains. A circular area (23m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by three earthen banks with intervening fosses. The inner bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) is evident S-SSW, WSW-WNW and N-E. The innermost intervening fosse (Wth 2.7m) is visible all round. The middle bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.1m) and the outermost intervening fosse (Wth 2.8m) are evident SW-N. The outer bank (Wth 5.9m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.8m) is evident SE-SW and WNW-N and the distance between it and the middle bank SE-SW is up to 12m. The level interior is raised at W to compensate for the hillslope. A stream is eroding the rath along the NE arc.
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
- Standing stoneunder 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.