Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Slaheny, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slaheny
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 51.89215, -9.44466
- SMR number
- KE094-013----
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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 a wooded area, on the steep S-facing slope of a ridge, overlooking the Slaheny River 200m to the NE. A roughly oval area (c. 28m N-S; c. 20m E-W), covered with overgrowth, defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 2.6m) NW-S and by a scarp S-NW. An intervening fosse (Wth 2.8m) and an outer bank are evident NW-N. There is a causeway entrance at N. An E-W field boundary skirts the N edge of the fosse and may mask part of it.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.