Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockataggle Beg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockataggle Beg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnabulloga
- Coordinates
- 52.10726, -9.49070
- SMR number
- KE058-075----
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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 SW-facing slope, to the S of a road. A circular area (31m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by two earthen bank and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.05m) is stone faced internally. The intervening fosse (Wth 2.5m) is covered with overgrowth along the W arc. The outer bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m) has been incorporated into the field boundary system along the S arc. The interior slopes down to the W and coniferous trees and ferns grow in it. A raised area (H 0.6-0.8m; L c. 6m) extends from the break in the inner bank at WSW to a stony area (L c. 9m N-S), covered with overgrowth, in the SW quadrant. There is a causeway entrance (Wth 1.4m) through the inner and outer banks at E. The bank terminals at the entrance appear to be stone faced. Numerous gaps occur in both banks.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.