What is recorded here

Foilclogh still holds a broken earthen arc above the River Inny, likely marking a human rath rather than a fairy abode. The bank has thinned to a low ridge, yet it still bends across the pasture like a forgotten gesture. People may have stood there watching ships pass Ballinskelligs Bay, children chasing balls past the hut stones, or lovers arguing about distance. The earth has taken most of the shape back, but it left enough for the place to keep speaking.

In pasture, on a terrace on the lower S-facing slopes of Foilclogh, with views SW to the River Inny estuary and Ballinskelligs Bay. An arc of an earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) WSW-WNW indicates the remains of a rath shown as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. Intermittent traces of a largely eroded bank extend for c. 5m beyond each end of the arc. The rath is indicated on the 1895-6 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular raised area (diam. c. 20m), with a NE-SW field boundary crossing the interior off-centre to the SE. There is a hut site (KE089-012----) in the NW quadrant and a Man-made underground passage (KE089-012001-) in the W half. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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