What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Awnaskirtaun is a small stone-fenced fort recorded in 1940s County Kerry, now lost to the exact field though still named in local memory. It may have been a boundary marker, a child's fort, or a genuine tiny ringfort that shrank in the telling. Denis Cahill's land held it, and the land still exists even if the fence does not.
In the 1940s a very small 'fort' with a 'stone fence' was recorded in Denis Cahill's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). It has not been precisely located.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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