Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballykissane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykissane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.11823, -9.78767
- SMR number
- KE056-016001-
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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. 42.2m N-S, 37m E-W
Located on level pastureland 50m ENE of a levelled enclosure (KE056-017----), this overgrown rath is enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. Its E sector is no longer extant. On the first edition of the OS map it is shown as a circular enclosure, while on the second edition map it appears as a semicircular enclosure, open to E. The 3m wide fosse is 2.8m in maximum depth below external ground level. The earthen enclosing bank rises 4m on average above the base of the fosse, is 2.8m wide and falls 2m to the interior of the rath. The entrance to the site may have been located in its levelled sector. A series of roofing lintels of a souterrain (KE056-016002-) were exposed in the early 1990s during land improvement operations at this site.
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. 458. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.