What is recorded here

Thirty-eight metres across on boggy ground, the fairy fort in Glouria still stands with a one-and-a-half-metre earthen bank and a shallow outside ditch. Its south-east gap is wide enough for a cart or a fleeing person, while an oblong mound inside suggests a buried house or cache. The missing ditch at the north-east edge and the small outside mound hint that the ring changed shape or purpose before people stopped remembering why.

Internal diameter 30m N-S, 38m E-W This univallate rath is situated on slightly boggy land and lies SW of KE005-076----. The site consists of an oval area enclosed by an earthen bank and exterior fosse. The maximum height of the bank measures 1.5m externally, and 1m internally. The fosse exists for the whole site except to the N to NE where it cannot be distinguished; elsewhere it measures 1.6m wide and .5m deep. The entrance would appear to lie to the SE, where it measures 2.4m in width. In the interior in the S sector is an oblong mound, 9.7m x 3.6m externally. On the exterior side of the N sector is another small mound, 3m x 2.4m, which could be connected to the rath. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 274. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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