Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lounaghan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lounaghan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88374, -9.45360
- SMR number
- KE094-044----
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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, on an elevated position to the N of the Glashievhee stream. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. According to local information, it was levelled during land reclamation and was known as 'the Lios'. It is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, V 290) as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) open along the N arc, skirted by a field boundary to the ENE and incorporated into a field boundary along its S arc.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.