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Ringfort - rath

Lisheennashingane, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lisheennashingane, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lisheennashingane
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.13555, -9.65567
SMR number
KE057-019----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a gentle SW-facing slope. An oval area (40m N-S; c. 33m E-W) defined by a low severely eroded earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) N-S and by a more substantial earthen bank, which is incorporated into the field boundary, S-N. There are gaps at NNE (Wth 3m) and S (Wth 2.5m). The interior slopes down to the SW. According to local information, a natural spring flows from N to S through the rath. Some trees line the edge of the interior. It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m), at the junction of four fields.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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