Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killowen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killowen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 51.88646, -9.56951
- SMR number
- KE093-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In pasture, on the N side of a rise to the N of Kenmare Bay. A raised circular area (diam. 22m) defined by a scarp (H 2.5m). The entrance is at SSE. The interior is level. A possible souterrain (KE093-017002-) lies just E of the centre. The rath is overgrown with trees and bushes around the perimeter and bushes and ferns in the interior. It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a broken line, at the junction of three fields, and named 'Site of Fort'. A standing stone (KE093-017001-) is c. 20m to the W.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.