Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbreanbeg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbreanbeg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.08058, -9.46182
- SMR number
- KE067-002----
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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
In pasture, on a NW-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a scarp (H c. 2m), by an intervening fosse (Wth 2.7m), by an outer earthen bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.6m), and by an outer fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.8m) NE-WNW. There is a causeway entrance at W. The surface of the interior is uneven and the enclosing elements NNE-SSE are obscured by dense overgrowth. Large boulders are heaped haphazardly in the outer fosse. The rath is raised at NW and is cut into the upslope at SE to compensate for the hillslope.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.