Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortanahaneboy East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanahaneboy East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheennamuck (Remains of)
- Coordinates
- 52.07251, -9.28243
- SMR number
- KE068-005----
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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 undulating pasture. An arc of earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.7m) W-E abuts a linear field boundary at S (L 18.5m), enclosing a semicircular area (dim. 16.2m N-S). It is best preserved along the NW arc. There are breaks in the bank at WNW (Wth 2.95m) and at NNW (Wth 5.2m). The bank and the uneven surface of the interior are overgrown with briars and ferns. The rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.