Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Racomane West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Racomane West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11153, -9.57779
- SMR number
- KE058-032----
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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 pasture, on a NE-facing slope. A circular area (36m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.7m) E-NW and by a scarp (ext. H 1.5m) with an external lip (int. H 0.35m) NW-E. Trees grow along the bank. The SW half of the interior is level while the NE half slopes downwards. This may be the rath mentioned in the 1940s as being 'situated at Rathcommane' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry).
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.