What is recorded here

Ghost hands have sanded the fort smooth, pulling its wall into the grass and hiding the ditch beneath clover. What remains is a shallow oval, barely visible from the east, as if the earth forgot its own shape. The fairies did not leave; they redistributed themselves, becoming the wind in rowan berries and the heat rising from stone at midnight. Dromloughra keeps its secrets not in walls but in the way it resists remembering.

Internal diameter 28.7m N-S, c. 44m E-W This once univallate rath has been very much levelled, and all that remains today is an oval raised area, rising to .7m above the surrounding land. SE to E for c 22m the rise cannot be distinguished at all. On the exterior side to the SW a very shallow fosse, c 2m wide and .4m deep, can be traced for c 11m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 401. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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