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Ringfort - cashel

Gort An Tsléibhe, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Gort An Tsléibhe, 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
Gort An Tsléibhe
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.96518, -9.33282
SMR number
KE086-001001-

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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)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough pasture, within a network of relict field walls (KE086-001002-) and in an area known locally as 'The Catharachs'. A roughly circular area (20m E-W; 17.4m N-S) defined by the overgrown lower courses of a stone wall (T 2m; H 0.3m). The collapsed wall is well-defined on the inner face along the E arc. An outer and more recent drystone rubble wall (T 0.5m: H c. 1.3m) is built on top of the external circumference of the earlier wall and this encloses a subcircular area (24m E-W; 21.4m N-S). The interior slopes slightly down to the S. There is a mound of loose stones in the N quadrant. There is a gap (Wth 0.6m) in the SE arc of the outer wall. Field boundaries abut the outer wall at NNE, SE, S and SW. A hut site (KE086-001003-) externally abuts the cashel at E. The inner wall may be the remnants of a cathair or stone fort which may be the origin of the name 'Catharachs'. This cashel is clearly visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, W 135/134) taken in 1973.

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

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

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