Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisroe (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisroe (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.10176, -9.50059
- SMR number
- KE058-080----
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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 low SW-facing slope. A circular area (44m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.2m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.25m). Breaks occur in the bank at E (Wth c. 2m) and W (Wth c. 3m). A slight trace of the bank remains across the breach at E. The breach in the bank at W may be recent. The interior is generally flat apart from a raised linear ridge (Wth c. 4m; max. H 1m) which extends (L c. 20m) N-S in the E sector, and it is covered with overgrowth. There is a souterrain (KE058-080001-) in the SW quadrant. Field boundaries radiate from the bank externally at W, N and SE. This is probably the rath referred to in the 1840s in the centre of Lisroe (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 2, 30). There is a standing stone (KE058-135----) c. 100m 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.