Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockalibade, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockalibade
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.11606, -9.49163
- SMR number
- KE058-049----
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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. This rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map and on the 1894 OS 6-inch map as a pear-shaped enclosure (c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W) with the W half incorporated into the field boundary system. The approximate location is now a level area defined by field boundaries at N and W, by a break of slope along the S arc and by a differential growth pattern along the E arc. This is probably the 'remarkably large' and 'tilled' fort in the S end of Knockalibade which was recorded in the 1840s (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 2, 24).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.