Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortaree, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaree
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.08344, -9.56652
- SMR number
- KE058-088----
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 a small plateau. A circular area (diam. c. 42m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m) S-N and by a low bank (ext. H 1.6m) N-S. An external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.35m) is evident S-N though it has been altered S-W due to ploughing. The interior is flat and level and may have been raised slightly above the external ground level. There is a possible entrance at S.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.