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Ringfort - rath

Park, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Park, 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
Park
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.06402, -9.48207
SMR number
KE066-070----

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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)
  • 1868 · 4. 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 a wooded area, on a SE-facing slope, immediately S of a lane. A roughly circular area (c. 27m N-S; c. 27m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse and a possible outer fosse. The inner bank (Wth 5.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.5m) is covered with undergrowth. The intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m at base) is evident NNW-NE and S-NW where it is used as a path; the path breaches the outer bank at NE and NW. The outer bank (Wth 1.9m; ext. H 1.45m) is evident NW-WSW and a stone-built NE-SW field boundary truncates it at WNW. The outer bank along the N and W arcs is abutted externally by an E-W estate wall and by a NE-SW path, respectively. A possible outer fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m) is evident SSE-SW. There is a causeway entrance (Wth c. 3.5m) at E. The interior is raised and slopes down to the E. There is a small depression, beside a Scot's Pine tree, in the S half of the interior. A large depression outside the outer bank at NNE may be the result of quarrying. According to local information, there was a limekiln nearby.

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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