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
- 52.01839, -9.45089
- SMR number
- KE075-007----
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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 to the NE of a road. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated on the 1894-5 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). According to local information, field clearance and land consolidation were carried out here in the mid-1990s. There is a large pile of stones, possibly from old field boundaries, to the NE of the area. A souterrain (KE075-007001-) is associated with this possible rath.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.