Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Baile Mhic An Daill, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Mhic An Daill
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.11958, -10.29428
- SMR number
- KE053-061----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Internal diam. 34m.
A roughly circular univallate rath located on a N facing slope on the N side of Ballymacadoyle Hill. An external fosse is present along the S and W sectors; it is c. 7m wide and .75m deep. The earthen enclosing bank is a maximum of 3m high externally and 1.75m internally. At NW and NE, sloping ramps have been constructed on the bank to give access to the interior. The original entrance may have been located in the ENE sector where the bank has virtually disappeared and where a horseshoe-shaped pit has been excavated. This latter measures 4.75m x 6.5m x 1.75m deep, and is enclosed, except to N, by a 1.25m high bank.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 324. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 6 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.