What is recorded here

Poll Dominic remains a rectangular depression six and a half metres long on a south-facing slope above the Emlagh river valley. Fragments of drystone lining still cling to its sides, marking the edge of a passage that once cut through solid earth. Local story claims a highwayman buried gold there, waiting for a brave enough thief to dig it out. The water streams past the hole where human hands stopped shaping the rock.

Ringfort KE045-012---- with Man-made underground passage KE045-012001- lies on a S facing slope near the head of the Emlagh river valley, and is located in the angle between a small SW flowing stream and a small SSE flowing tributary of the Emlagh river. The Man-made underground passage in the WSW sector of the platform is now no more than a rectangular depression measuring 6.5m NE-SW x 1.3m x 1.1m deep. Some small fragments of its drystone lining adhere to the sides. This feature is known locally as Poll Dominic (An Seabhac 1939, 287) and is reputedly the hiding place of gold belonging to a highwayman. A small D-shaped, drystone-built chamber, set into the outer flank of the fosse at N may be a relatively modern animal shelter. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 528. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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