Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dungeel, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dungeel
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.09487, -9.74416
- SMR number
- KE057-070----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a farmyard, on the W side of a small ridge, c. 250m NE of the Laune River. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). On the 1895 OS 6-inch map only the E half is indicated, incorporated into the field boundary N-NE and by a hachured scarp NE-S. The remains consist of an arc of bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.7m to the level of the yard; ext. H 0.9m) N-NE, faced internally with modern blocks and externally with recent drystone walling. A lane skirts the bank to the N and a farmyard lies immediately to the S. The W half of rath is occupied by an abandoned vernacular house. This is probably 'Doongeel Fort' situated towards the S of the townland and which had 'a house erected on it' which was recorded in the 1840s (OSNB, Killorglin, no. 1, 13).
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.