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Ringfort - rath

Stagmount, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Stagmount, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Stagmount
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.07202, -9.29634
SMR number
KE068-103----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 pasture, on a steep S-facing slope with views to The Paps of Dana. In the 1940s a rath, half of which was in Denis D. Houlihan's land and half in Denis J. Houlihan's land, was recorded in Stagmount (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Only the W half of this rath is visible at ground level and consists of an arc of earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.5m) S-N abutting a recent linear field boundary at E (L 24m) and enclosing a D-shaped area (dim. 24m E-W). Breaks in the bank occur at S and NNW. Field-clearance rubble is placed haphazardly on and against the bank. The interior slopes down to the S. There are no visible remains of the E half of the rath. An enclosure (KE068-113----) lies c. 50m to the 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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