What is recorded here

Indicated is a dense, overgrown fairy fort in Slaheny Wood, perched on a pasture spur above a bend in the Slaheny River. Its steep scarped walls and hidden western entrance suggest a place built to watch the valley rather than hide from it. The wood may have swallowed human memory, but the shape still holds its ground against the slope.

In Slaheny Wood, on a spur of level pasture, c. 200m SW of a bend in the Slaheny River. A densely overgrown, roughly circular area (22.5m N-S; 20.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1m). A fosse (Wth 1.8m) is evident outside the scarp SW-WNW, elsewhere the ground falls away steeply from the base of the scarp to the valley below. The remains of a bank (Wth 10.7m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.55m), an intervening fosse and a low outer bank (int. H 1m) are evident SW-W. The interior is level. The ground slopes down steeply from the rath on all sides except at W where the entrance is situated. A recent N-S field boundary immediately to the W of the rath may have truncated the fosses and banks along the W arc. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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