Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rath Beg (Magunihy By., Rathmore ED), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath Beg (Magunihy By., Rathmore ED)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06813, -9.24667
- SMR number
- KE068-007----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level pasture. A roughly circular area (diam. 38.4m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.9m) SSW-NW, by a recent field boundary (part of which may be resting on the original bank) NW-NNE, by a recent linear field boundary NNE-SE and by the faint outline of a low bank SE-SSW. There is a break at NW, with short stretches of recent stone walls on each side. There is a gate to the adjoining road at NE. The rath is indicated as a circular enclosed area (diam. c. 35m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, this is the rath, within which were a few grave-like mounds of earth, recorded in the 1940s on David P. O'Sullivan'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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.