Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rockfield Middle, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockfield Middle
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Milleen Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.12832, -9.63088
- SMR number
- KE057-023----
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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. This rath is not visible at ground level and a farm trackway crosses the approximate area of it. It is indicated on the 1895 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m). According to local information, it was levelled in the 1970s. It was described in the 1940s as a 'large' fort (Minutes of the Co. Kerry Field Club, 1945, vol. 1, 610-11). A souterrain (KE057-023001-) and six ogham stones (KE057-023002-, KE057-023003-, KE057-023004-, KE057-023005-, KE057-023006-, KE057-023007-) are associated with this rath.
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
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.