Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Breahig (iveragh By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breahig (iveragh By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.86419, -10.14288
- SMR number
- KE089-047----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This site is marked on both editions of the OS maps as a circular enclosure. It is located in low-lying pasture, a short distance S of the Inny river, and survives as a raised circular platform of earth and stone. Standing up to 1.4m above surrounding ground level, it measures 33m N-S x 32m E-W in overall diameter. Faint traces of an enclosing bank are discernible at the N sector of the site.
The poorly preserved remains of an oval hut (KE089-047001-) occupy the centre of the enclosure. This measures 8m x 5.5m internally, and its wall of earth and stone measures .6m wide and .3m high.
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. 638. 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.