What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Baile Na Saor Íochtarach, County Kerry. A circular bivallate enclosure, outer bank surviving only on the north half, now hidden beneath a band of darker grass above an infilled ditch. It sat in a wide triangle of land between the Dingle to Anascaul road and two streams flowing south to Minard Bay. People may have lived there, fenced it, forgotten it, or fed it to story. The grass still keeps the shape of what disappeared.

On the 2nd edition of the OS map this site is shown as a circular bivallate enclosure, the outer bank present around the N half of the site only. The only visible trace at present is a band of darker green grass which indicates the outline of the infilled fosse. It was located in the large triangle of land that lies between the main Dingle to Anascaul road and 2 streams that flow S to Minard Bay. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 630. 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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