What is recorded here
Lisheen-cankeragh, meaning little fort of the sheep's head, still stands in Meenogahane beside a semi-circular stone hut. The hut measures 3.7 metres, rises 0.4 metres, and keeps a two-metre southern opening. It may have served the fort or the living people around it. Whatever it was, it is small enough to touch and old enough to stop a person listening.
This site is marked on the OS maps as Lisheen-cankeragh (KE008-003----) (little fort of the sheep's head). Immediately SW of this lies a small hut site (KE008-002----).
The hut site to the SW is semi-circular in plan, measuring 3.7m N-S; it is constructed of stone and rises to a height of .4m. A small opening of c2m exists to the S. This hut site may be connected to the promontory.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 109. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 20 August 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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