Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Toon, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toon
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 51.97862, -10.08747
- SMR number
- KE070-063001-
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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
This site, bisected roughly NW-SE by a modern road, is located on gently sloping land W of Teermoyle mountain. No surface trace of the E half of the site survives. At W the enclosing bank has an external height of 1.6m and falls 1m to the interior. Composed of earth with a stone core, it averages 1.5m wide. An eroded and ill-defined entrance gap, 2.7m wide, occurs at SW and is flanked on its W side by the 'Gallaun' marked on the second edition of the OS map. This upright slab probably functioned as an entrance portal; it stands .86m high and is .33m wide and .12m thick. A low, stony, grass-grown mound is located in the N quadrant of the rath's interior and may represent debris connected with the construction of the road.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 550. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.