Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
An Fhothrach Mhór, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Fhothrach Mhór
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.13291, -10.18191
- SMR number
- KE054-004----
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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
Internal diam. 24m ENE-WSW, 19.8m N-S
This roughly oval univallate rath lies on a N facing slope overlooking the Lispole valley. The earthen enclosing bank survives only around the NW half of the enclosure. It is .75m high internally and 2m high externally. A very shallow fosse, 2m wide and less than .4m deep, is also faintly discernible and it is separated from the base of the bank by a 2m wide ledge. The SE half of the site is enclosed by a drystone-built field wall which probably preserves the line of the original bank. Access to the interior is provided by gaps between the wall and bank at N and SW, but the original entrance was probably located in the destroyed SE section of the bank.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 425. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.