What is recorded here

Mortons and Delams had no visible boundary, yet both claimed the same cliff-edge pasture. They stopped arguing only after a wedding guest admitted the fort appeared and vanished like breath on glass. The ring remained steady in Shandrum, enclosing ordinary grass while refusing every measure of ownership.

In pasture, on a level terrace, near the base of cliffs on the N-facing slope of Bird Hill. A circular area (int. 16.4m N-S; 16.1m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (T c. 1.4m; int. H c. 1.2m; ext. H c. 1.2m) NNE-W and by a low bank of earth and stones W-NNE. The level interior is covered with rushes and grass. Loose stones are scattered along the internal and external wall flanks and a large glacial erratic is situated outside the cashel to the NW. Field-clearance material, which is piled up against the arc of the wall W-NNE, has damaged this section of the wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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