Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cleedagh,knockataggle Beg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleedagh,knockataggle Beg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.11000, -9.49076
- SMR number
- KE058-073----
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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 gentle W-facing slope, towards the top of a low hill. A circular area (c. 54m E-W) defined by the remains of two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The interior is defined by a steep-sided earth and stone bank (Wth 2.55m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.3m) NW-E and by a scarp E-NW. The intervening fosse is shallow. The outer bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.65m) is visible intermittently NW-NE. The inner bank is stone faced internally and externally. Its terminals at NW and E are abutted by E-W field boundaries radiating externally from the bank. The NW terminal of the outer bank is abutted by the N face of the field boundary. Another rath (KE058-076----) is c. 40m to the ENE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.