Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacprior, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacprior
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.12138, -9.77287
- SMR number
- KE056-012001-
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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. 31m N-S, 29.4m E-W
Coombeg Fort/Cúm Beag: This roughly circular rath is located 235m E of KE056-011----. The bank is 1.5m high externally, averages 1m wide and falls .75m to the site's interior. An entrance, 4.2m wide, is located at NE. A stone-built souterrain (KE056-012002-) is locally reputed to have been present in the rath, but it was quarried away.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 464. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.