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Ringfort - rath

Knockalibade, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockalibade, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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