What is recorded here

No visible entrance exists in the wall, only a low gap in the grass where the stone bank thins. People may have crawled through that gap at night or carried stones from elsewhere to build the inner mounds. The fort still keeps its shape because the land remembers the weight of every choice made inside it.

Internal diameter 34.4m N-S, 36.6m E-W This univallate cahir consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a well-defined stone bank, though it is now grass-covered. The bank is on average 6m wide, 1m high above the interior and 2.2m high above the fosse. The external fosse encloses the whole site. It is quite shallow but still distinguishable, c 3m wide and .3m deep. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land and contained within are mounds which could suggest house sites or Man-made underground passages (KE009-007001, KE009-007002-). In the W sector is an oblong mound, 10m N-S and 1m-2m E-W. About 2.4m E of this is another mound, 3m N-S x 2m E-W and 4m high; SE of this feature is another small mound, 2m N-S x 2m E-W. In the SE sector is a semi-circular bank curving into the interior of the enclosing bank. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 805. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

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