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Ringfort - rath

Tinnies Upper, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tinnies Upper, 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
Tinnies Upper
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
51.91370, -10.35512
SMR number
KE078-010001-

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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. 20.3m N-S, 21.4m E-W
Located in pasture on the lower SW slopes of Geokaun, Valencia Island, this circular univallate rath overlooks the Portmagee Channel to S. The enclosing bank is composed of earth with a substantial quantity of stone, though no facing could be discerned through the sod-cover. It ranges in external height from .5m to 3m, and internally from .45m to 1.4m. It has an average basal width of 3.15m and features a 1.8m wide entrance gap at SE. A regular upright slab, marked 'Gallaun' (KE078-010004-) on the OS maps, stands close to the SW side of the entrance. It is 1.54m high and measures .95m x .3m at base; NW-SE. A second slab, c. 1.6m long, lies prostrate 1.5m to E and is almost completely covered by sod. These slabs probably served as portals on the inner side of the entrance. A field boundary overlies a portion of the bank at N.

The remains of a roughly circular hut (KE078-010003-) are located in the S sector of the site's interior. Measuring 3.6m in internal diameter, its 1.1m wide walls survive only .2m high. About 2m to NW a low grassy bank forms a semicircular outline and may indicate the foundations of a second hut (KE078-010005-). O'Connell recorded a small disturbed souterrain (KE078-010002-) at this site (OPW 1937). Its entrance is no longer visible.

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. 549. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 29 July 2013

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 64/1938).

Nearby in the register

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

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