Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Anglont, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Anglont
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.10259, -9.75504
- SMR number
- KE057-061----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the break of a S-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the Laune Riverto the S. An oval area (38m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 13m; H 0.75m) NW-NE and by a scarp (H 1m) NE-NW. The interior is level. A field boundary skirts the bank NW-E. A trackway is adjacent to the scarp at 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
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.