Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fossa, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fossa
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06663, -9.58393
- SMR number
- KE066-061----
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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 steep S-facing slope, on the N shoreline of Lough Leane. The cropmark of two concentric fosses N-E, visible in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V 164/42-3) taken in 1949, may be the remains of a rath. These fosses are not visible at ground level. This is probably one of the two raths (see KE066-089----) recorded in the 1840s in the S side of the townland (OSNB, Aghadoe, no. 1, 21).
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
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.