What is recorded here

Indicated is a faded fairy fort in County Kerry, reduced from a thirty-five metre enclosure to an eighteen metre circle after centuries of pasture and forgetting. The 1846 map still shows a limekiln sitting on its north-west bank, suggesting people burned stone beside the old boundary long after the fort stopped being a home. The earth has not vanished, but it has become so thin and quiet that the field itself seems to have swallowed the shape. What remains is a low ridge in grass, visible only when the light lies flat and the boundary stops being a fact and becomes a feeling.

In pasture, on level ground in the corner of a field. A circular area (diam. c. 18m) defined by a low rise (Wth 4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.5m). Faint traces of an intervening fosse and an outer bank are visible WSW-NW. The rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with a limekiln on the bank at NW. This is probably the rath which was recorded as 'middle Nantenane fort' in the 1840s (OSNB, Killorglin, no. 1, 5). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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