What is recorded here

Glenacappul Fort is a ruined ringfort on a Kerry hill where cattle still break through the inner bank and a modern lane cuts past the outer edge. The fairies may have built it, but humans certainly lived there, perhaps in the small hut site or the hidden passage mentioned in the survey. The fort is no longer a fort in the human sense. It is a boundary marker, a place where the ordinary field ends and the strange world begins.

In pasture, on the summit of a gently sloping hill. A circular area (32m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner earth and stone bank (Wth 6.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2m) is breached in numerous places. An external berm is visible around the inner bank NW-E. Material from the inner bank at E has slumped down into the intervening fosse (Wth 2.6m). The outer bank (Wth 2.7m; ext. H 1.7m), with a break at N, is composed of similar material to the inner bank. Stone-facing, which appears to be recent, was noted along the E arc of the outer bank. There is a possible causeway entrance (Wth c. 2.5m) at NW and numerous cattle breaks through the inner bank. The interior is convex with a possible Man-made underground passage (KE059-016001-) and a possible hut site (KE059-016002-) in the S half. A lane, which was constructed in the late 1990s, skirts the outer bank externally NE-S; the ground level has been lowered here to accommodate the lane. A field boundary skirts the rath along the N arc. A depression (L c. 5m; Wth 4m; D 2m) immediately outside the outer bank at NW is a result of quarrying. 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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