TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - rath

Coologes, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Coologes, 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
Coologes
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
51.91901, -9.42678
SMR number
KE085-012----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a hillock overlooking the valley of the Roughty River. A circular area (27.8m N-S; 27.7m E-W) defined by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 7.1m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 4.8m) is revetted by a drystone wall internally and is heavily overgrown with trees and bushes. The intervening fosse (Wth 1.6m) is visible all round. The outer bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 2m; ext. H 1.2m) survives intermittently. The interior is raised (H 2.3m) above the external ground level to compensate for the hillslope. There is a causeway entrance (Wth 2.6m) at S. A souterrain (KE085-012001-) was recorded in this rath.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - rath in Kerry All County Kerry records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map