What is recorded here

Half buried in a Kerry field, the rath in Tullig still holds the shape of a small defiant house. Its oval bank rises three metres above a cut ditch, and inside stands the collapsed round chamber where someone once lived beneath the wide Ferta valley. The entrance gap has worn thin with rain and time, but the walls remain thick enough to suggest a life led close to the earth, watching the river and the mountains beyond.

Internal diam. 29m NW-SE, 22m NE-SW This oval-shaped univallate rath is located on a terrace overlooking the Ferta river to N, c. 350m E of KE070-051----. It commands a view of the whole Ferta valley from Teermoyle mountain at E to Valencia Harbour at SW. The external fosse, 2.4m in basal width, is best preserved along the S sector of the site, where its outer edge is defined by a modern field boundary. Here, the bank rises a maximum of 3m above the fosse and falls 1.3m to the interior. Elsewhere the bank is steep-sided. An entrance gap at SE measures 1.75m wide and is much eroded. A second gap occurs in the bank at NW, and appears to be relatively recent. Centrally located in the rath's interior are the sod-covered remains of a circular hut (KE070-052001-). Measuring 6.3m N-S x 5.8m E-W internally, its much collapsed wall averages 2m wide. A .8m wide gap at E marks its entrance. 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. 553. 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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