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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04789, -9.46689
- SMR number
- KE067-089----
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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 a N-facing slope and c. 450m SW of a bend in the Flesk River. A raised circular area (diam. 32m) defined by a low discontinuous bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5m) with intervening short stretches of scarp, especially along the S arc. The external face of the bank is being eroded at N. Intermittent faint traces of a depression externally may indicate a fosse. The interior, in pasture, slopes down gently to the N. There is a cattle break (Wth 1.2m) in the bank at W. Another rath (KE067-031----) lies c. 90m to the WNW.
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.