What is recorded here
In pasture, on a level terrace, on the lower N-facing slopes of Knockeirka. A circular area (diam. 16m) defined by the low grass-covered base course of a drystone wall (T 1m; H 0.2m). A later drystone wall (T 0.4m; H 1.2m) stands on its outer rim. Field boundaries abut the cashel at NW and SE. Field-clearance rubble is piled intermittently against the outer face of the wall. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE102-005
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- N Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- P L Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- dalvenjah on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ulrich Hartmann, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Angela Herlihy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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