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Ringfort - rath

Knockmanagh (Magunihy By., Killarney Rural ED), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockmanagh, 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
Knockmanagh (Magunihy By., Killarney Rural ED)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.08091, -9.41923
SMR number
KE067-009----

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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 pasture, on a S-facing slope with views to Mangerton Mountain and Macgillycuddy's Reeks. A raised oval area (32m E-W; c. 27m N-S) is enclosed by an overgrown inner earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m) SE-SSW and by traces of an overgrown inner bank SW-NW. Intermittent traces of an intervening fosse (Wth 2.1m) is evident SE-NW and an outer bank (Wth 2.65m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 2.1m) surviving SE-NW is obscured by overgrowth. The enclosing elements are truncated along the N arc by an overgrown E-W field boundary. A NNW-SSE overgrown field boundary truncates the enclosing elements and a small portion of the interior NNE-SE. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.3m) at SE. There is a break in the bank at WNW and a break in the field boundary leading to the interior at N. The surface of the interior is uneven and partially obscured by gorse and briars. A hut site (KE067-009002-) and souterrain (KE067-009001-) are in the interior off centre to the SW.

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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