Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gullaba, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gullaba
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87579, -9.43232
- SMR number
- KE094-023----
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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 level pasture, c. 30m to the N of a tributary of the Slaheny River and overlooking the valley of the Slaheny River to the E. This rath is indicated as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. A trackway bisects it on the 1895 OS 6-inch map; this is now the NE-SW road connecting Glanlough to the Kilgarvan road. In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O'Connell noted that the road to Gurteens ran through this possible rath and that part of it could be seen as 'a half circle on the north side of the road, and part has fallen away with the cliff on the south side' (KAS). There are no visible remains of this rath. There is a possible souterrain (KE094-023001-) in its interior.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.