What is recorded here

Kilcooly North holds a broken ringfort inside Church Field, where a fieldbank cut the ancient earth in two. Ploughs erased the north-west side completely, yet soil colour still reveals the missing curve. The south-east bank survives four to seven metres wide and seventy centimetres high, resisting the mare’s teeth and human impatience. The fort is neither gone nor whole; it is waiting for someone patient enough to read what the field already knows.

This univallate rath is situated in the SW sector of a field which is known locally as 'Church Field' (951). The site has been cut by a fieldbank running NE-SW. On the NW side of the fieldbank the fort has been completely ploughed out, but because it is in a ploughed field can be distinguished by the different coloured soils. The enclosing bank on the SE side of the fieldbank is 4m-7m wide and rises to .7m high. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 572. 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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