Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolies, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolies
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02288, -9.45436
- SMR number
- KE075-006----
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 level pasture, c. 20m S of the Finoulagh River. This possible rath is indicated on the 1846 and 1894-5 OS 6-inch maps a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It is levelled and the area (diam. c. 32m) comprises an uneven surface with a circular depression (D 0.15m; 3m N-S; 4m E-W) in the S sector.
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.