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Ringfort - rath

Anglont, County Kerry, Ireland

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Townland
Anglont
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.10151, -9.74582
SMR number
KE057-062----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 level area of a S-facing slope. Access was not gained to this rath. According to local information, it was levelled in the mid-1990s along with another rath (KE057-063----), c. 80m to the SE. The rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with a trigonometrical station on the bank at WSW. In the 1840s it was recorded that 'there are two forts towards the eastern part of the townland', one unnamed and the other, which had a trigonometrical station on it, was called 'Angles or Lissknocknaholla' (OSNB, Killorglin, no. 1, 10). However, on the 1846 OS 6-inch map, the name 'Lissknocknahulla' was attached to the nearby rath (KE057-063----).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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