Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Islandearagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islandearagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10262, -9.23813
- SMR number
- KE060-007----
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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)
- 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 level pasture. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a large subcircular area (diam. c. 40m) truncated SE-SW by an E-W field boundary. According to local information, it was levelled during land improvement works in the 1990s. Two short stretches of a bank, c. 20m apart and projecting from the N side of the field boundary, may be the partial remains of the rath.
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
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.