Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhar, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhar
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11976, -9.57338
- SMR number
- KE058-029----
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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, to the SW of a road, on the summit of a low rise. A roughly circular and slightly raised area (c. 32m E-W) defined by a low rise (Wth 12m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.15m) NW-NNE and by a slight intermittent scarp elsewhere. A road skirts the rath at E. The interior is slightly concave. This is probably one of the two raths (see KE058-028----) in the W end of the townland and 'near the children's burial ground', which were mentioned in the 1840s (OSNB, Kilcredane, 12). This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). A children's burial ground (KE058-104----) is c. 170m to the SE.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.