What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Skahies, County Kerry: a circular rath, about twenty-seven metres across, set in pasture on a south-facing slope. Its bank is partly levelled now, but the shape still reads as a made place, not a chance heap of earth. People may have lived there, excluded others, and left the rest to grass and rain.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope. A circular area (26.9m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a partially levelled bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.1m) ESE-NE and by the faint trace of a bank NE-ESE. A slight trace of a fosse is visible S-NE. The interior slopes down to the S. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a multivallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) and on the 1897 OS 6-inch map as a bivallate circular enclosure (diam c. 35m). (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) 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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