What is recorded here

Kilfenora holds a forgotten ringfort where a hairpin of stones still marks the centre of a broken earth wall. Men called it a fairy fort because the shape defied ordinary sense, yet it may have been a human house, a boundary marker or a place for ritual. The precision of its building suggests someone understood the land well enough to make it remember.

The precise location of a possible ringfort with Man-made underground passage (LE028-099001-) in the townland of Kilfenora recorded in the Minute Book of County Kerry Field Club 02/09/1939 (Vol. 1, 38-9) has not been identified. The County Kerry Field Club recorded that; 'Mr. More then showed the secretary a small fort nearby on the lands of Mr. Clifford. This fort is about 30 yards in diameter and has the appearance of a line of souterrrain which broke down in two or three places. it was not open however. In the centre of the fort was a stone pile in the shape of a hairpin; that is the stones lay in two parallel rows which were connected with a large pile at the end'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 June 2022

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