Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cinn Aird Thiar (tc Baile An Sceilg), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cinn Aird Thiar (tc Baile An Sceilg)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1846).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82774, -10.29198
- SMR number
- KE097-046----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This site is depicted as a circular enclosure on the first edition of the OS map. It now survives as a denuded bank of earth and stone, truncated by a field wall at E, and it encloses an area 21m in diameter. The bank averages .5m high above external ground level at N, where it is 2.5m wide. A raised circular area in the N sector of the enclosure, measuring 5.5m N-S 4.5m E-W, may represent the remains of a hut (KE097-046001-).
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. 681. 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.