Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barleymount Middle, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barleymount Middle
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09626, -9.57534
- SMR number
- KE058-086----
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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 the plateau of a low hill. This rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. It has been levelled though a vague trace of a slightly raised circular area (c. 36m N-S; c. 34m E-W) is visible. The interior slopes down to the SE. The landowner recalls that the rath had an outer fosse and he was told by his father that the rath was used as a children's burial ground (KE058-086001-).
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.