Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonteens, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonteens
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.10688, -9.50498
- SMR number
- KE058-068----
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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 W-facing slope, in undulating countryside. A roughly circular area (30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.8m) which is denuded in places. The interior is entirely covered by overgrowth. This is probably the rath, called 'Lissheenamuck Fort', which was mentioned in the 1840s as being in the S end of Cloonteens and 'about 4 chains East of the road leading from Killarney to Castle Island' (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 3, 20).
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.