What is recorded here

Doocarrig Beg holds a forgotten ringfort, buried beneath dense pasture on the slopes of Killeen Mountain. Jeremiah Mahony and Clem. Cooper likely farmed the land around it in the 1940s, unaware that an oval enclosure stretched thirty-five metres beneath their feet. The earth swallowed the fort, but it never stopped occupying the hill.

In overgrown pasture, on the N-facing slopes of Killeen Mountain. The rath is inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. An earthen bank was noted along the NW arc. The rath is indicated as an oval enclosure (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map, and as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), truncated by a linear field boundary along the NE arc, on the 1894 OS 6-inch map. It is visible as a cropmark of a semicircular enclosed area (c. 35m NW-SE), with a linear field boundary at NE, on an aerial photograph (GSIAP, W 16-15) taken in 1973. This is probably one of the two raths recorded in Doocarrig beg townland in the 1940s, one of which was in Jeremiah Mahony's land and the other in Clem. Cooper's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). 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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