Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drom (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drom (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.04241, -9.33545
- SMR number
- KE068-016----
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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 level pasture, above a steep fall of ground down to the river which is c. 50m to the NE. A raised roughly circular heavily overgrown area (c. 26m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; ext. H 1.4m). The interior is covered in ferns. A break at SE may indicate the entrance. Field boundaries abut the bank at N and S. Field-clearance rubble is piled against the outer face of the bank at NNE and SSW. This is one of the three raths recorded in Drom townland in the 1940s, one of which was in Clem.T. Cooper's, one in John G. Cooper's and another in Florence T. Cooper'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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.