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What is recorded here

Calf Cove in County Kerry, Ireland, holds a broken ringfort where two slabs still stand like sentinels at the seaward edge. The northern pillar reaches 1.55 metres while the southern leans north at 1.4 metres, separated by barely a metre. Whatever chamber the old survey imagined beside them has vanished, leaving only a faint bank and the suggestion that people once shaped this cove into a defensible home.

This site is marked as a semicircular outline on the first edition of the OS map, and is located at the SE end of Calf Cove. It is named 'Caher' on the OS Fair Plan, which also depicts a rectangular structure, aligned NE-SW, in its NE sector. The site survives as two upright slabs, .93m apart and aligned E-W. The N pillar is 1.55m high and measures .37m .25m at base. Inclining towards N, the S pillar stands 1.4m high and is .33m .25m at base. A barely perceptible bank extends a short distance from each pillar and there is no visible trace of the rectangular structure. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 687. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.