What is recorded here

Half-buried in rough pasture on a south-facing slope, the ringfort at Kilcurrane East still holds its shape: a sixteen-metre circle with a low earthen bank, a cut scarpside, and two large stones lying in the western interior. Someone built it level against the hill, raising the south and cutting the north until the ground obeyed the shape of a home. Centuries of rain and pasture have softened the edges, but the deliberate circle remains, waiting to be walked around rather than explained away.

In rough pasture, on a S-facing slope. A circular area (diam. 16m) defined by a low eroded earthen bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.55m) NW-N and NE-ESE and by a scarp (H 0.9m) ESE-NW. The bank N-NE appears to have been levelled recently. The S portion of the interior is raised and the N portion is cut into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. Two large stones are situated in the W sector of the interior. The rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. 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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