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Ringfort - rath

Lisbabe, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lisbabe, 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
Lisbabe
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.08457, -9.34571
SMR number
KE059-019001-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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, on a SE-facing slope. A circular area (36m SW-NE; 34m NW-SE) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 5.75m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.8m) is stone-faced internally along the N arc. The fosse (Wth 3.6m) is visible but is shallow on either side of the entrance. The outer bank (Wth 7m) is low, wide and flat-topped and is breached at WNW. An overgrown field boundary (Wth 2.9m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.5m) is built on top of and around the external rim of the outer bank. There is a causeway entrance through the inner and outer banks at ESE. The interior slopes steeply down to the SE and there are hummocks in the SW quadrant. A WNW-ESE farm trackway bisects the interior and breaches the banks and the field boundary at WNW and ESE. There is a possible souterrain (KE059-019002-) and a possible children's burial ground (KE059-019003-) in the SW quadrant.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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