What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort on Deelis Mountain, a circular earthworks with a hidden passage beneath its south side. People may have lived there before becoming a story, but the shape still fits human hands and the mountain still holds the form. The boundary between memory and invention thins when stone and soil repeat themselves across centuries.

In pasture, on top of a hillock, on the lower N-facing slopes of Deelis Mountain. A level circular area (diam. c. 33m) defined by a bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5m) of earth and stone WNW-ENE and by a damaged and eroding scarp (H 1m) ENE-WNW. An external fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.3m) is evident W-ENE. There is a possible causeway entrance (Wth 3m) at NE. There is a Man-made underground passage (KE102-036001-) in the S quadrant. 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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