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Ringfort - rath

Leamnaguila, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Leamnaguila, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Leamnaguila
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.13427, -9.53158
SMR number
KE058-013----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 fairly level pasture, to the SW of a road. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a trivallate circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 60m). It is indicated on the 1894 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval, trivallate enclosure. The present remains consist of a circular area (38m N-S) defined by a bank (Wth 7.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m). The interior is concave. There is a possible entrance at NW where a break in the bank occurs. According to local information, the remainder of the rath was levelled in the 1970s. It was described in the 1840s as a 'very large' rath towards the centre of Leamnaguila (OSNB, Kilcredane, 19). In the 1940s 'three earthen rings about a fort in Mrs. Lenihan's farm in Leamnaguilea' were noted (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). A possible souterrain (KE058-013001-) is associated with this rath. A second rath (KE058-014----) lies c. 180m to the E.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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