Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeen (magunihy By., Killarney Rural Ed), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (magunihy By., Killarney Rural Ed)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10699, -9.52738
- SMR number
- KE058-061003-
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 an E-facing slope. A roughly D-shaped area (dims. 22m WSW-ENE) with a straight NNW-SSE side (L c. 22m), formed by an overgrown earthen field boundary, is enclosed elsewhere by a partially overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.1m). The ground outside this bank and the external face of the bank shows signs of disturbance. Cut scrub is dumped in the interior and along with a heavy cover of briars, gorse and bushes they make it impossible to examine the interior. According to local information, this rath is known locally as the 'fort' and the field is still called the 'fort field'. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is indicated here on the 1846 OS 6-inch map on the E side of the field boundary. The interior was used as a children's burial ground (KE058-061001-) and there is the tradition of a church (KE058-061002-) here also.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 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.