Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Nantinan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nantinan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10918, -9.69148
- SMR number
- KE057-114----
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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. An arc of earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 1.9m; ext. H 2.6m) evident NE-W is the remains of a rath (diam. c. 38m). According to local information, the N half of the rath was levelled 'decades ago'. A field drain skirts the base of the bank, externally NE-WSW. Remnants of a breeze-block wall abut the bank externally at WSW. A garden shed abuts the bank externally at W. A small drystone wall extends N from the bank terminal at W. Mature tree grow along the bank. The S portion of the interior, which is now a garden, is raised (H 0.7m) to compensate for the hillslope. According to local information, a possible entrance was located at NNW, in a poorly drained area. There is a possible souterrain (KE057-114001-) in the levelled N half of the rath.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.