What is recorded here

Mountcoal preserves a broken oval rath, wide enough for thirty-two metres east-west and twenty-four north-south, set on a hill where the land still rises two metres above the surrounding ground. Its south-west bank survives for fourteen metres, nine metres broad and sixty centimetres high, while a quarry stands barely five metres east and a fieldbank cuts across the west. The shape has been levelled until it becomes a shallow dish sloping southeast, yet it keeps its boundary and faces every direction.

Internal diameter 24m N-S, 32m E-W This site is situated on top of a hill, with excellent views in all directions. About 5m E of this site lies a quarry. The W side is cut by a fieldbank running in a NE-SW direction. This univallate rath has been much levelled and distorted. All that remains today is a sub-oval raised area which is on average 2.2m above the external ground level. To the SW an enclosing bank can be identified for c 14m; it is c 9m wide and .6m high. The interior is sloping SE. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 648. 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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