What is recorded here

Faghbane is a hidden earthen ringfort near Killarney, County Kerry. It is a circular bank about thirty-one metres across, now buried under dense growth on a pasture slope above the Flesk River. The shape still appears in old maps and aerial photographs, suggesting people made a clear boundary there before vegetation took it back.

In pasture, on an elevation to the E of Killarney and 260m S of the Flesk River. A circular area (diam. c. 31m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m), totally obscured by dense overgrowth. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1846 and 1893-4 OS 6-inch maps and is visible as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on an aerial photograph (OSAP, 3748-47) taken in 1983. There is another rath (KE067-089----) c. 90m to the ESE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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