What is recorded here

Magic may have first claimed the fort, but people certainly built it: a complete circular rath, twenty-five and a half metres across, set on an open south-facing slope where the land still gives back shape. Its earthen bank rises two metres, and in the south-east it wears a clean inner skin of dry stone, proof that the circle was made to be seen, entered and remembered. The south-west has been taken away, yet the field wall has stepped in to carry the curve forward, as if the fort refused to stop existing. Overgrowth now fills the middle and hides whatever lived there, but the boundary remains clear enough to walk, measure and imagine without inventing.

Internal diam. 25.5m A circular univallate rath situated on a S facing slope with good open views in all directions. The earthen enclosing bank is a maximum of 2m high, and in the SE quadrant it is faced internally with drystone masonry. In the SW quadrant the bank has been removed, but the curving outline of the enclosure is preserved by the field wall which bounds this section. It is not clear where the original entrance lay, but there is a densely overgrown gap through the wall at S. The interior is also densely overgrown and, though some stone collapse is present, no definite structures were discernible. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 512. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.