Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drombohilly Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombohilly Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79385, -9.73874
- SMR number
- KE109-025----
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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 pasture, on an elevation, on a W-facing slope overlooking a river valley. B. Ó Cíobháin recorded a rath and souterrain at this location (SMR file). This possible rath is not visible at ground level. This is probably one of the three raths recorded in Drombohilly Lower/Upper in the 1930s, by Capt. D. B. O'Connell (KAS).
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
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.