What is recorded here

Half-buried in a Kerry field, the fort keeps its edge sharp against the harbour wind. People called it a fairy fort because the ground hides more than it shows, yet the stony mound and long bank still mark a human boundary. Perhaps someone lived there, defended that corner, or simply stacked stones until the shape became a room. The sea is close enough to hear, but the fort belongs to the land and remembers its own rules.

This site lies about 170m from the N shore of Castlemaine Harbour. The present remains are confused and difficult to interpret but the site is known locally as a fort and formerly contained an underground passage. The site occupies the NW corner of a field and it consists of a roughly semi-circular, stony mound, defined along its NW side by a field wall. The mound is up to 1m high and a maximum of 10m long. A low, stony bank, .6m high and c. 3m wide, extends N-S for 14.5m directly E of the mound. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 717. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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