Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Nantinan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nantinan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.11421, -9.70669
- SMR number
- KE057-038----
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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 level ground. A circular area (diam. 40m) defined by the remains of two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.45m) was, according to local information, levelled in the 1930s/40s. The fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.15m) is evident E-ENE. The remains of the possible outer bank are only evident along the E arc. The interior slopes down to the E, where there is a waterlogged area, obscured by reeds. There is a causeway entrance (Wth c. 5m) at E. This may be the rath which was recorded as 'W. Nantenane fort' in the 1840s (OSNB, Killorglin, no. 1, 5). There is a standing stone (KE057-037----) c. 190m to the SW.
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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.