Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockasarnet, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockasarnet
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.08690, -9.53502
- SMR number
- KE058-094----
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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 N-facing slope. A circular area (diam. 35m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) which is covered with overgrowth in places. The flat interior has been raised in the N sector to compensate for the hillslope. There is a possible entrance at E and there is a gap at NNE. A ledge (Wth 6m), which is semicircular in plan and abuts the bank along the N arc externally, is built up (H 2m) above the external ground level. The ledge has a slight dip but is otherwise relatively flat. An E-W field boundary is immediately N of the ledge. On the 1894 OS 6-inch map the rath is shown as open at E. This is probably the rath recorded in the 1840s in the centre of Knockasarnet (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 1, 37). A possible fulacht fia (KE058-137----) is c. 85m to the NW.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.