What is recorded here
No visible trace remains in Ballinard, County Kerry. The land may have swallowed the rampart, the fort and every person who lived inside it. Forgetting is the final chamber of many Irish forts.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Burnt spread in Kilmurry (trughanacmy By.)Burnt spread · 187 yd
Enclosure in BallinardEnclosure · 434 yd
Castle (in ruins)Castle, unclassified · 1019 yd
Kilmurry Househouse · 1254 yd
Kilmurry Church (in ruins)Church · 1621 yd
KnockateeMountain / peak · 1.6 mi
Mount EagleMountain / peak · 1.8 mi
Barna BogForest · 6.4 mi
Nohaval WoodWood · 12 mi
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty MemorialMemorial · 14 mi