Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shinnagh (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shinnagh (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.08188, -9.20804
- SMR number
- KE060-010001-
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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 gentle N-facing slope. A circular area (30.5m E-W; 29.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.9m) with some stone inclusions. A break (Wth 2.5m) at NW may indicate an entrance and several cattle breaks also occur. Some deciduous trees grow intermittently on the bank and on the nearby field boundaries. It is probably one of the two raths recorded in the 1840s in the N side of the townland (OSNB, Nohovaldaly, 11). In the 1940s it was recorded that this rath, was in Daniel O'Keeff'e's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry).
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.