Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromin East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromin East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.12364, -9.71677
- SMR number
- KE057-032----
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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 SE-facing slope. A circular area (18m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.45m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.8m). The bank is incorporated into the field boundary system at N. There is an entrance (Wth 4m) at E, with narrow cattle breaches at NE and SSE. The SE portion of the interior is raised (H 1.6m) above the external ground level to compensate for the hillslope. A field boundary radiates from the bank along the SSE arc, externally.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 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.