Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockeenduff, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockeenduff
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.08818, -9.50476
- SMR number
- KE058-102----
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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 level pasture, c. 85m E of the Killarney-Currow road. A circular area (40m N-S) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2.6m) is most substantial along the SE arc where it is stone faced internally. Elsewhere, the inner face of the bank survives more as a gentle slope down to the interior. The intervening fosse (Wth 4m) is visible all round. The outer bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 0.95m) is visible N-S and may be incorporated into a field boundary, covered by overgrowth, W-N. Possible stone-facing on the outer bank along the NE arc may be associated with an E-W field boundary which extends from the bank at E. There is a causeway entrance (Wth 2.8m) at S. There is also a cattle gap through the outer bank at NE and a less-pronounced gap through the inner bank at NE. In the concave interior, which is covered with overgrowth around its internal perimeter, are the remains of N-S cultivation ridges. There is a souterrain (KE058-102001-) in the NE quadrant. The presence of a trigonometrical station in this rath was mentioned in the 1840s (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 1, 39).
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.