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Ringfort - rath

Knockeennalicka, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockeennalicka, 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
Knockeennalicka
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.09444, -9.50161
SMR number
KE058-096----

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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 low hill, immediately S of a lane. A circular area (30m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.35m; int. H 0.52m; ext. H 1.45m) WNW-N and NNE-SE and by a scarp (H 1.25m) SE-WNW and N-NNE. A possible entrance in the NW arc is heavily covered with overgrowth. There are also gaps in the bank at W and SE. Field boundaries radiate from the bank externally along the SE and NW arcs. A lane skirts the bank NW-SE externally. There is external stone-facing along the bank at NE. The concave interior slopes gently up to the bank. There is a possible souterrain (KE058-096001-) in the NE quadrant.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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