Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leamnaguila, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leamnaguila
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissavoherdurragha
- Coordinates
- 52.13456, -9.52822
- SMR number
- KE058-014----
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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, at the edge of a ridge, on a SW-facing slope. A circular area (26m E-W) defined by traces of a low bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.05m) E-SE and WNW-NW and by a scarp SE-WNW. A linear NW-SE road truncates the rath NW-E. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) which abuts a NW-SE road at NE. On the 1894 OS 6-inch map it is truncated at NE by the road. This is probably the rath recorded in the 1840s as deriving its name from 'an old condemned road' which was within 'two chains of it on the E side' (OSNB, Kilcredane, 19). A second rath (KE058-013----) lies c. 180m 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.