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Ringfort - rath

Doory (Iveragh By., Portmagee Par.), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Doory (Iveragh By., Portmagee Par.), 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
Doory (Iveragh By., Portmagee Par.)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
51.88019, -10.36427
SMR number
KE087-038002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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The National Monuments Service's description

The site is marked on both editions of the OS map as a circular enclosure and is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located a short distance S of Portmagee Channel, in the SE corner of a small field. Modern field banks bound the E and S limits of the site, which is defined elsewhere as a platform 1.25m high above surrounding ground level. It is approximately circular in plan, measuring 29.5m N-S x 30.5m E-W. Small, upright grave-markers, averaging .25m high, occur within its W half.

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

Date of upload: 30 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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