What is recorded here

An Lisín, the little ringfort, stands south of the pig island where a natural arch cuts through the headland. Its thirty-four metre stone wall once braced a rocky scarps, enclosing a small circular hut and perhaps a hidden underground passage. People later stripped those stones to wall other fields, erasing the first home but leaving behind a convex fosse and a memory of human hands shaping the coast.

KE008-001---- is known locally as 'Lisheen', An Lisín (the little ringfort), is cut by a fine natural arch and lies S of Illaunamuck, Oileán na muc (island of the pigs). It consists of a stone wall which revetted a rock-scarp. It measures 34m long and has a maximum height of 2m above the fosse and 2m above the interior. The fosse, like the bank, is convex to the landward side. A small circular hut site (KE008-001003-) measuring 3m in diameter stands in the NW sector and there is also evidence of a possible Man-made underground passage. According to Westropp (1909, 318), the stones of the house-sites were used to wall in the headland. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 110. 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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