Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortderrig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortderrig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.03709, -9.27971
- SMR number
- KE068-033----
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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 the lower NW-facing slopes of The Paps of Dana. A roughly semicircular area (dim. c. 34m SE-NW) is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.6m) NE-W and by a linear scarp (L 33m; Wth 3.6m; H 1.75m) at NW. There is a possible causeway entrance (Wth 2.9m) at ENE. The NW portion of the interior is raised and the SE portion is cut into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. A stone field boundary skirts the external edge of the bank at NE. An indistinct overgrown field boundary skirts the rath externally along the SW arc. The rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1846 and 1894-5 OS 6-inch maps.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.