Site of Court — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Castlefarm rises on a limestone shelf in County Kerry, where a broken rectangular wall still stands inside a faint bank. The name Court suggests a fortified residence from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, but the stones give little away beyond their shape. Trees lean over the moss-covered ruins, and the field around them has kept the outline visible long enough for people to draw a line across it. Whatever lived there, it did not leave behind a clear story, only a room without a roof and an edge that still resists forgetting.

On top of an elevated limestone outcrop partially covered by deciduous trees and strewn by loose moss-covered stones. The top edge of the outcrop is defined intermittently along its N (L c. 25m) and W (L c. 40m) sides by a linear bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H 0.5m) (KE048-035002-); the site is depicted by a dotted line enclosing a roughly rectangular area (c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. In the centre of the area defined by the bank is the remains of a rectangular structure (8.8m N-S; 8.4m E-W) defined by the basal courses of a random-rubble wall (T 0.85m; H 0.5m) bonded by a lime mortar. The exact nature of the monument is unclear but the name 'Court' suggests it may be the remains of a late-16th/early 17th-century fortified residence. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 41/1976).

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