Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clashnagarrane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clashnagarrane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1846)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09333, -9.47005
- SMR number
- KE059-011----
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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, at the top of a steep E-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the Deenagh River. This rath is levelled but is evident as a slight concave depression (diam. c. 30m) at the edge of a natural fall of ground down to the floor of the river valley. It was recorded in the 1840s as a large rath in the SE end of the townland (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 3, 25). There is a souterrain (KE059-011001-) in the interior. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) in a small field whose boundaries abut the N, S and W arcs of the rath. A second rath (KE059-012----) lies c. 250m to the ESE on the opposite side of the river.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.