What is recorded here

Cahernaman is a double-walled earthen ringfort on a Kerry ridge, its inner bank still standing three metres high while the outer wall has largely surrendered to pasture and field boundaries. The fort faces the Ferta valley, suggesting whoever built it wanted to see every shadow moving across the water below. Ua Riain wrote in 1927 that faint building remains still lay inside, but those marks have vanished, leaving only the ridge, the banks and the wide empty circle where domestic life once fit.

Internal diam. 28.3m N-S, 31m E-W This circular bivallate rath is located in pastureland on a ridge of high ground overlooking the Ferta river valley. The outer bank and intervening fosse are only extant in its SW sector, their extremities marked by modern field boundaries. The bank, composed of earth and gravel, is 4.5m wide, 1.6m high externally and falls 1.8m to the bottom of the fosse which is 4m wide. The inner bank is earthen, but features a substantial stone content. It rises 3.15m high externally, is 3m wide and is up to 1m high internally. A possible entrance, 2m wide, occurs at E and is flanked on its S side by an upright slab. Ua Riain noted the remains of several poorly preserved buildings in the interior of the rath (1927), but these are no longer visible. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 475. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

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