Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Faghbane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faghbane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04700, -9.46866
- SMR number
- KE067-030----
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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 level pasture, on top of a hillock to the E of Killarney and 450m S of the Flesk River. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (OSAP, 2122-3) taken in 1989. This possible rath is not visible at ground level.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.