Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismacfinnin, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacfinnin
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.10687, -9.73744
- SMR number
- KE057-057----
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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 an E-W ridge with views S over the valley of the Laune River to Magillycuddy's Reeks and N over an undulating countryside. A circular raised area (36m N-S; 35m E-W) is enclosed an earthen bank (Wth 7.4m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 3m) largely overgrown by briars and gorse, and by an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.4m) NW-SE and by intermittent traces of the fosse SE-SW. The enclosing bank is best preserved NE-SE and is lowest along the N arc. There are cattle breaks in the bank at NW, NE and SW. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) at SE. The interior, slightly uneven, is in pasture and is partially obscured by gorse and briars along the inner side of the enclosing bank. Field boundaries abut the rath at W and SW. Another rath (KE057-056----) lies c. 120m to the W.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.