Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockearagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockearagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.07954, -9.43172
- SMR number
- KE067-008----
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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 S-facing slope with views SW to Mangerton Mountain. A raised circular area (c. 47m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by an inner earthen bank (Wth 7.25m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2.6m) obscured by overgrowth, by an intervening fosse (Wth 4.8m) and by an outer earthen bank (Wth 3.35m; int. H 2.6m; ext. H 2.6m) also obscured by overgrowth. Recent breaks which occur in the outer bank at SSW (Wth 5.5m) and at NNE (Wth c. 7.5m) lead to the fosse, where the bases of both flanking banks and the base of the fosse have recently been re-cut NNE-SSW. The fern-covered fosse is intact SSW-NNE. The level interior is covered with overgrowth and has a possible souterrain (KE067-008001-) to the NW of the centre. A curvilinear field boundary skirts the external base of the bank SSW-W and an open drain skirts it NW-N.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.