Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rahanane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahanane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.10172, -9.45035
- SMR number
- KE059-008----
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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 SE-facing slope. A raised D-shaped area (18m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.65m) along the straight SW side (L 40m) and abutted by an earthen bank NNW-NE and by scarp NE-SE. There is a possible entrance at ESE and a cattle gap at S. Conjoined hut sites (KE059-008001-; KE059-008002-) occur in the interior. This rath was recorded in the 1840s as having derived its name from a man called Darby Hayes who formerly lived 'at the foot of this Fort' (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 3, 28).
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.