Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisheennacannina, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisheennacannina
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.13820, -9.56839
- SMR number
- KE058-006----
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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 a gentle S-facing slope. A circular area (29.2m E-W; 28.6m N-S) defined by a denuded earthen bank W-E and by a scarp (H 0.35m) E-W. There is a cattle gap through the bank at N. The level interior is slightly higher than the external ground level. This is one of three raths (see KE058-005----, KE058-117----) mentioned in the 1840s as being in Lisheennacannina (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 24). One of these was called 'Lissacannina' and was described as 'remarkably large' and 'nearly defaced' and had a 'cavern' in it (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 42). The other two raths were 'not known by any particular name' (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 24).
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.