Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooleanig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooleanig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Liscallee
- Coordinates
- 52.05604, -9.70619
- SMR number
- KE065-055----
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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
Liscallee/Lios Caillí (?): This rath, marked as a bivallate enclosure on the OS maps, was levelled in the early 1980s during land reclamation operations. Cooke recorded that it had a 'double rampart and deep ditch' and that there was a 'choked entrance to a souterrain (KE065-055001-) in its interior (1906, 5). It was located on a small hill overlooking the Gaddagh river to W.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 655. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.