What is recorded here
Knockburrane held a circular earthen fort on the Kerry landscape, visible enough for surveyors to mark it in 1841 and again in 1914. The ring vanished before aerial cameras flew overhead in 1974, leaving no surface trace for later eyes to find. Whatever life moved inside that hidden circle has returned to the soil, carrying its memories beneath the grass.
Situated to the S of KE016-041----, this circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps, and a slight trace of it can be noted on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974). No surface trace survives today.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 635. 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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