Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockdoorah, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdoorah
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnacarhoon
- Coordinates
- 52.08065, -9.31248
- SMR number
- KE068-001001-
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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 gentle NE-facing slope, with views SE to The Paps of Dana. A circular area (diam. 34m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 2.2m) SW-NE, by a low grass-covered eroded bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) NE-SE and by a scarp SE-SW. Traces of an external fosse are evident WSW-WNW. There is a possible causeway entrance (Wth 4.2m) at E. Mounds of earth are evident in the NW quadrant. Field boundaries abut the perimeter externally at NW and NNE and skirt the rath SSE-SSW. A large prostrate stone and an adjacent depression in the SE quadrant may mark the location of a souterrain (KE068-001002-). There is a possible children's burial ground (KE068-001003-) in the NW quadrant. This is the 'black-fort' recorded in the 1940s in Thomas Daly's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.