Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gearha (dunkerron North By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gearha (dunkerron North By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05027, -9.71120
- SMR number
- KE065-087----
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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
Internal diam. 26.3m N-S, 27.6m E-W
This univallate rath is located 120m SE of KE065-086----. Enclosing a subcircular area with a well-defined entrance at E, the bank has an external height of 1.65m, falls an average of .9m to the level interior and is 3.4m wide. The stone-faced entrance is 1.95m wide and the facing extends 1m along the bank's external face on both sides.
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. 513. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.