Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cummers West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummers West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77026, -9.75692
- SMR number
- KE109-006----
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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 rough pasture, on the edge of a terrace on a S-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the Owenshagh River. A raised roughly oval area (28.6m E-W; 18.7m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.25m; H 1.25m), with a shallow fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.15m) SW-N and an outer bank (Wth 0.9m; H 0.25m) SW-N. There is a wet drain-like depression (Wth 1.7m; D 0.15m) along the base of the scarp N-E. The interior is obscured by a dense cover of gorse. A recent field boundary (on a N-S axis) tangentially abuts the base of the scarp at E.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Radial-stone enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.