Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissyviggeen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissyviggeen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05370, -9.45899
- SMR number
- KE067-069----
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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 the 1940s a big rath 'surrounded by a double fence' was recorded 'about 300 yards to the north west of Lissyviggeen school' and on the edge of the large two-storey house [Fort William Ho.] of the O'Keeffe family (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). While there are no visible remains of this rath, the present owners of Fort William Ho. have a strong family tradition that there was a rath on the top of the ridge immediately to the NE of the house and consequently that area is not cultivated.
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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.