Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drombrick, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombrick
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenarinka
- Coordinates
- 52.09417, -9.64608
- SMR number
- KE057-082----
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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 pasture, on level ground, on the S bank of a stream. The slight remains of a circular area (diam. c. 29m) with a depression in the centre. It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) with a trackway extending from the NE arc towards an enclosure (KE057-083----), which lies c. 300m to the SE. This rath is indicated on 1895 OS 6-inch map a bivallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). A road lies adjacent 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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.