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
- Lissaneel
- Coordinates
- 52.10499, -9.57738
- SMR number
- KE058-057----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a plateau. A circular area (c. 39m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 1.8m) SSE-ESE and by a scarp ESE-SSE. The level interior, which is overgrown in places, is raised slightly in the SE sector. There is a possible entrance at WSW and a cattle gap at NW. The bank is disturbed along the W and S arcs. There is a possible souterrain (KE058-057001-) in the interior.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.