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
- Indicated (1846)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.08324, -9.20306
- SMR number
- KE060-011----
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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 level pasture. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m). A curving field boundary (Wth 2.1m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.6m; L c. 12m) may follow the line of the E arc of the rath. This is probably one of the two raths recorded in the 1840s in the N side of the townland (OSNB, Nohovaldaly, 11). Subsequent to the site inspection, archaeological test trenches were excavated in the area of the rath (Kiely 2003b, 172). These revealed that the levelled bank varied in width between 4m and 6m and also uncovered a fosse (Wth c. 3.5m) c. 1m outside the bank (ibid.). In the 1940s it was recorded that this rath, which was in Dan Kelliher's land, was no longer evident (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
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.