Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnacarriga, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacarriga
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.10279, -9.51477
- SMR number
- KE058-067----
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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 plateau, c. 130m S of a tributary of the Glanooragh River. A circular area (c. 60m E-W; c. 56m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) which is lightly covered with overgrowth. Numerous gaps occur along the bank. The level interior is slightly raised. There is a possible entrance at NNW. Field boundaries (on an E-W axis) radiate from the bank externally at ENE and SE. A drainage ditch, which externally skirts the bank E-W, cuts into the base of the bank. This is probably the rath referred to in the 1840s as being in the N end of Gortnacarriga (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 1, 28).
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.