What is recorded here

Indicated is a hidden rath in County Kerry, erased from the ground but preserved on an 1846 map as a thirty-five-metre oval. Called Cockhill Fort, it stood nearly defaced beside a cottage, suggesting people once lived there before pasture and time smoothed the earth flat. The boundary exists only in ink now, yet the slope still faces south, waiting for someone to imagine the shape that disappeared.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope. This rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated as an oval enclosure (c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. It was described in the 1840s as a small rath, called 'Cockhill Fort', which was 'nearly defaced' and which was situated about 'five chains' NE of Cockhill Cottage (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 3, 31). 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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