Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballydeenlea, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydeenlea
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.12040, -9.53930
- SMR number
- KE058-036----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 N-facing slope, towards the top of a low hill. A circular area (34m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. 1.5m) NNW-WNW and by scarp WNW-NNW. Along the S arc, the bank is almost levelled and is evident only as a low rise. It is covered with overgrowth along the E and SW arcs. External stone-facing is evident on the bank along the N arc. The interior is level and it is crossed by a N-S field boundary in the W sector. The N-S field boundary indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as crossing the rath off-centre to the E is no longer evident.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.