What is recorded here

Lios na Coille is a two-backed earthen ring, twenty-seven metres across, hidden in the wet land south of the Laune. Its inner wall still stands four metres high, packed with small stones, while its outer edge has mostly vanished into grass and memory. A concrete gate now marks the old entrance, and an underground passage opens in the western bank like a swallowed road. The fort has become a farmyard, yet it keeps its shape, waiting for someone to remember why it was built.

Internal diam. 27m ENE-WSW Lisnakeellough/Lios na Coille: This heavily overgrown bivallate rath is located in low-lying land S of the Laune river estuary. The external bank and fosse are only extant in the W sector, where the bank rises .6m above external ground level and averages 2.5m wide. The flat-bottomed fosse reaches a maximum depth of 1.2m, and a basal width of 4.6m. The overgrown inner bank rises up to 4m from the fosse and measures 3.5m wide at WSW. It is composed of earth with a substantial content of small stones. It falls 1m on average to the much modified interior of the rath which has been used as a farmyard, and contains concrete sheds in its NW quadrant. A concrete pillar and gate occur at a gap in the bank at SE, which may mark the original entrance to the site. An opening to an inaccessible stone-built Man-made underground passage (KE056-008002-) occurs on the external face of the bank at W. 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. 543. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

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