Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Teernaboul, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Teernaboul
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.06297, -9.46613
- SMR number
- KE067-014----
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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 the edge of a sharp fall of ground down to the valley of the Woodford River. The E portion of the rath is truncated by a N-S field boundary. The interior (diam. 28m N-S; dim. 18m E-W) is defined by a scarp (H 0.45m) along the S and W arcs and by a partially levelled grass-covered bank (Wth 13m; int. H 0.47m; ext. H 0.98m) along the N arc. Darker soil noted at the base of the scarp may be evidence for a fosse. The interior slopes gently down to the E. The rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. On the 1893-4 OS 6-inch map it is indicated as a circular raised area (diam. c. 25m) with the E arc incorporated into the field boundary system. Two pits (KE067-121----, KE067-121001-) lie c. 150m to the NW.
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.