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Ringfort - rath

Gortnacarriga, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gortnacarriga, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gortnacarriga
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.09497, -9.51437
SMR number
KE058-092----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a gentle SW-facing slope, c. 90m E of the Killarney-Tralee road. A circular area (c. 46m E-W; c. 42m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5.45m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.25m) which is breached in numerous places. The interior slopes gently down to the SW and a circular raised area was noted towards the centre. A linear ridge (H c. 0.25m), on a N-S axis, is situated to the N of the centre. The remains of a hut site (KE058-092001-) are in the NE quadrant. There is a possible entrance at SE. A N-S field boundary tangentially abuts the bank externally along the W arc. An E-W field drain and boundary are situated to the S of the rath. Four piles of dumped material, probably from the field drain, were noted between the S arc of the rath and the field drain. An outer ring of hachures NW-SSE, indicated on the 1894 OS 6-inch map, could represent an outer bank or fosse.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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