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Ringfort - cashel

Laharan South, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Laharan South, 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
Laharan South
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Caher
Coordinates
51.91379, -10.19008
SMR number
KE079-092----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (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. 22.5m N-S, 21.6m E-W
Caher/An Chathair: This circular univallate rath is located in boggy pasture at the head of the Oghermong river valley. Field boundaries skirt the site at W and N and a deep stream flows alongside it at S. The bank has an average external height of 1.8m, an internal height of .8m and a basal width of 3.9m. Traces of stone-facing, now mostly collapsed, survives on its inner face. A well-defined, stone-faced entrance, 2.3m wide, is located at NNE. A stretch of a flat-bottomed external fosse, measuring 2.8m wide and 1m deep, is extant at E.

The foundations of a subcircular, drystone-built hut (KE079-092001-), marked 'Cloghaun (site of)' on the OS maps, are located in the S half of the rath's interior. It has an internal diameter of 6.2m and a possible entrance at NW. Its interior is filled with stone, and a particularly dense stone scatter abuts it externally at N.

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. 530. 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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