Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromadeesirt, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromadeesirt
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissateekeel
- Coordinates
- 52.11799, -9.50592
- SMR number
- KE058-042----
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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 SW-facing slope, c. 20m to the E of the Killarney-Castleisland road. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 7.15m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 2.2m). An external fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 1.1m) is evident N-E and is infilled E-N. The interior is level. The NW quadrant and the area inside the S arc of the bank are heavily overgrown with brambles. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2.1m) at SW. The corner of a house slightly impinges on the fosse at NE. Garden sheds, built over the fosse at SE, abut the bank externally along the SE arc. Field boundaries, which cross the fosse, radiate from the bank at SW and NW. On the 1894 OS 6-inch map a second bank is indicated along the W arc, between these two radiating field boundaries. This is probably the rath in the E end of Dromadeesirt which was mentioned in the 1840s (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 3, 17).
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.