Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymalis, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymalis
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissaree
- Coordinates
- 52.10596, -9.67818
- SMR number
- KE057-068----
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 level ground, c. 15m to the SE of the mill race of the Kerry Woollen Mills. This rath is indicated on the 1895 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). According to local information, it was levelled 'decades ago'.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Mill - paperunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.