Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortnagane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnagane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04617, -9.25394
- SMR number
- KE068-021----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 an E-facing slope near the edge of a ravine, on the lower N-facing slopes of The Paps of Dana. A raised oval area (38m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) defined by a drystone wall (T 1.2m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.55m), highest at E. The interior slopes down to the NE. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at WSW. Field boundaries abut the wall externally at SW, NW and NE.
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
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.