Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyspillane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyspillane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06111, -9.47472
- SMR number
- KE067-083----
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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 a recreation area, in a housing estate on the E outskirts of Killarney. This possible rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), with the perimeter planted with trees, on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. Little remains of it apart from a low N-S earthen bank (L 56m), against which large stones have been placed, which may incorporate elements of it. The S end of this bank (Wth 5.1m; H 0.8m) curves slightly.
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.