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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.10533, -9.47908
- SMR number
- KE058-079----
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 circular area (24m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.8m) with a cattle gap in the NW arc. The interior is level with a stony area noted in the N quadrant. There is a possible entrance at E.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.