What is recorded here

That is a calluragh: a circular fort-like ring about two feet high and made chiefly of stones. It stands on a southeast slope near Brandon Bay in An Cheapaigh, with a six-metre terrace below it and a dense tangle inside the ring. The stone facing has mostly fallen, but drystone work still braces the downslope bank, and the land keeps the shape even when its history becomes hard to handle.

External diam. 16m A roughly circular enclosure situated on a SE facing slope about 100m from the W shore of Brandon Bay. The vegetation in the interior is impenetrable and the enclosing bank could only be inspected in parts. The bank is composed of earth and stones but could originally have been a stone wall, now collapsed and grass-grown. Intermittent traces of drystone facing are visible along its inner face but only a single course is preserved. On the downslope side, the bank is revetted externally with drystone masonry to a height of 1.3m. The foundation for this walling appears to have been a natural outcrop of rock .8m high. A 6m wide terrace, outside the enclosure on the downslope side, is retained by a short stretch of drystone masonry. This site may be that described in the OSNB (Cloghane, book 1, 44) as a calluragh, 'in the form of a fort and circular... and about 2 feet high composed chiefly of stones'. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 360. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

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