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Ringfort - rath

Ards (Magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ards, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ards (Magunihy By.)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.07970, -9.60024
SMR number
KE066-003----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 pasture, on a hillock. A roughly circular area (c. 38m E-W; c. 36m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1m) ENE-NW and by a scarp (H 1.4m) NW-ENE. A concrete farmyard is situated immediately outside a poorly preserved portion of the bank at S. Apart from this poorly preserved portion, the bank along the S arc is stone-faced though the stone-facing is of recent appearance. There are breaks in the bank along the SE and SW arcs where gateways occur. The interior slopes gently down to the N; the ground level in the N portion has been slightly raised to compensate for the hillslope. A concrete wall skirts the bank externally SW-W. Field boundaries abut the bank at W and NW.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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