Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamaunagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamaunagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.09129, -9.49041
- SMR number
- KE058-099----
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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 break of a W-facing slope. A circular area (31m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (ext. H 1.5m) which has a gentle inward slope. The bank, which is planted with coniferous trees, is slightly damaged in places by cattle. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2.5m) at S. A depression, covered by overgrowth, along the SE arc may be the remains of a shallow fosse. The interior is concave. There is a possible souterrain (KE058-099001-) and a possible hut site (KE058-099002-) in the NW quadrant. This is probably the rath mentioned in the 1840s as being a 'little N.W. of Ballynamaanagh House' (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 2, 5).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.