What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort on the lower slopes of Knockeirka, where a later drystone wall circles a hidden grassy base. People may have lived inside the ring before fields closed around it, but the fort still belongs to the story told about it. The boundary stones mark more than a abandoned house; they keep the shape of the claim alive in the hill.

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. 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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