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Ringfort - rath

Ballynamaunagh, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynamaunagh, 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
Ballynamaunagh
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lissavoggy
Latest-edition OS map
Lissavoggy
Coordinates
52.08852, -9.47053
SMR number
KE059-013----

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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)
  • 1868 · 4. 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, at the top of an E-facing slope overlooking a tributary of the Deenagh River. A circular area (diam. 30m) defined by a bank (Wth 6.2m; H 0.6m) which is stone-faced internally along the ESE arc. The external face of the bank E-SE has been cut into, forming an almost vertical face. The interior is concave and slightly flat in the centre. Loose stones are scattered in the SE quadrant. There is a shallow circular depression against the internal face of the bank at SE. A break in the bank at E (Wth c. 4m) has been infilled with a stone deposit which extends into the interior. There is a possible entrance (Wth c. 2.5m) at NW. A rectangular recess, which is stone-lined and cut into the external face of the bank at SW, is possibly the remains of a limekiln. This rath was recorded in the 1840s as 'Lissavoggy' because of 'being surrounded by a soft boggy place' (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 3, 30).

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.

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