What is recorded here

Kilmore’s collapsed passage chambers still lie inside a stone bank on a gentle rise, marked as a cave on the 1841-42 map before part of the fort was levelled. The three surviving rooms and a long mound suggest people cut or built beneath the ground, then lived with the hole as an ordinary part of the field. Whatever dropped into that darkness, the earth kept the shape of the work.

KE009-001001- is situated on a rise with the land gently sloping NE. A trackway runs immediately W of it. This site is marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure and 'cave' is marked in the interior; on the later edition map of 1915-16 the W section of the fort has been levelled. Today this site consists of a semi-circular bank constructed mainly of stones, within which are the remains of a collapsed Man-made underground passage. In the NE sector of the interior, three stone-lined depressions are evident, the remaining chambers of the Man-made underground passage (KE009-001002-): they measure 4m x 2m, 3m x 3.4m and 8m x 1.4m. W of these collapsed chambers is an elongated mound measuring 6m x 3m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 806. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

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