What is recorded here

Doon West preserves a circular rath where a later fieldbank cut through the eastern edge, proving that human hands kept reshaping the same ground across centuries. Inside the low wide bank, a five-by-seven-metre mound still holds stones around what may have been a dwelling, while a narrower ridge curves from the northwest through the west to the south. The place does not announce itself; it waits to be touched, measured and imagined as a small occupied life beneath an ordinary Kerry field.

Circular univallate rath KE004-013---- has been cut on its E side by a fieldbank running N-S. The enclosing earthen bank is low and wide, measuring 1.2m externally and c 1m internally. Slight traces remain of an exterior fosse which is mainly distinguishable to the NNE; In the ESE sector of the interior are the remains of a possible hut site (KE004-013001-), 5m x 7m, and stones are evident around this mound. Enclosing this mound from the NW through W to S is a bank c 1.6m wide and .6m high. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 221. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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