What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Shrone, County Kerry: a 52-metre earthen ring on a gentle south-facing pasture slope, with a broken bank, a possible northern entrance and a hollow centre. People may have lived, herded or hidden there before fields and lanes closed around it, while local imagination still calls it a fairy fort because ordinary use has faded from sight.

In undulating pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. A circular area (52m E-W) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (Wth 5.2m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.1m) SSW-SSE and by a scarp SSE-SSW. There is a possible entrance (Wth 4m) at N. Other breaks occur in the bank at NE, SW and ESE. The interior slopes down towards the centre from the W, N and E. A N-S field boundary abuts the bank externally along the W arc. An E-W field boundary, with a lane on its S side, tangentially abuts the bank externally along the S arc. A subrectangular, hachured feature (c. 15m E-W; c. 10m N-S) abuts the S arc internally on the 1897 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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