What is recorded here

Half-hidden in rough pasture above the Drimminboy valley, the ringfort at Deelis keeps its shape in a broad earthen bank and shallow outer ditch. People may have lived inside that raised circle before grass and time smoothed its edges, but the local name still points to fairy fort, as if the place belongs more to story than to record.

In rough pasture, on an elevation on a terrace overlooking the valley of the Drimminboy River to the N. A heavily overgrown raised circular area (22.4m N-S; 21.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.15m; int. H 1.05m, ext. H 2.7m) ESE-NNE and by a scarp NNE-ESE. An external fosse (Wth 2.1m; max. D 0.5m) is evident SW-NNE. The internal ground level is 1.5m and 0.8m higher than the external ground level at N and W, respectively. There is a possible entrance along the NE arc where a break occurs in the bank. 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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