Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farranmanagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranmanagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Parkatober Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.12985, -9.67934
- SMR number
- KE057-015----
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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 break on a S-facing slope. A circular area (diam. c. 36m) defined by a low grass-covered earthen bank NW-SE and by an earthen bank (Wth 5.45m; int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.4m), which has been incorporated into the field boundary system, SE-NW. There is a possible souterrain (KE057-015002-) in the centre of the interior. This rath was described in the 1840s as being 'close to a well' (OSNB, Kilcolman, no. 2, 7) and there is a well (KE057-015001-) adjacent to it at N. Two other raths (KE057-016----, KE057-014----) are c. 70m and c. 30m to the E and W, respectively. A third rath (KE057-013----) lies c. 200m to the WSW.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.