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Ringfort - rath

Feaghmaan East, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Feaghmaan East, 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
Feaghmaan East
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
51.91994, -10.33626
SMR number
KE078-003----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Internal diam. 30m E-W
This circular univallate rath is located in rough grazing land on the lower NE slopes of Geokaun, Valencia Island. The enclosing bank has been largely levelled and now stands to a maximum external height of .75m at S. Its inner face is indistinct and is virtually flush with the interior of the rath. A straight stretch of a modern field bank appears to incorporate a portion of the enclosing element at N. The interior of the site is densely overgrown with scrub and furze, but the vague outline of a rectangular hut (KE078-003001-) is preserved in its NE quadrant. Two further huts were recorded by Mitchell, one in the interior (KE078-003002-) and one outside (KE078-003003-) the site at SW (1989, 30).

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. 506. 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

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

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