What is recorded here

Na Cúla hides a drystone ringfort and underground passage beside the Emlaghmore valley, yet local people still call it a fairy fort. The surviving bank is only half a metre high, while upright slabs and a lintelled entrance preserve the shape of a place ordinary surveys may have missed. Humans may have built, buried or forgotten it; the fairies apparently never left.

Not marked on the OS maps, this site is known locally as a ceallúnach. It is located in pasture and overlooks the Emlaghmore river valley and Ballinskelligs Bay to SE. It is bisected by a N-S field boundary and no apparent remains are preserved on its W side. The enclosmg bank E of the boundary is drystone faced internally and externally, averages 1.3m wide and stands to a maximum external height of .5m. The extant portion of the site has an internal diameter of 16.5m N-S and contains an area, 12m N-S x 7m E-W, of neatly arranged rows of upright slabs. A low L-shaped bank, 6.4m long, occurs immediately W of this area and may represent part of the foundations of a building. A Man-made underground passage is located on the W side of the field boundary, just S of the probable limits of the enclosure. Its S facing lintelled ope measures .65m x .25m and gives access to a lintelled passage with sides of earth which extends to N. Access to the Man-made underground passage was not possible. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 989. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

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