What is recorded here

Toberasphagher Fort is a vanished fairy ring in Kerry pasture, reduced to a low western rise and an eastern field boundary. It guarded a handsome spring at its eastern edge, perhaps feeding a hidden passage beneath the turf. Cattle still walk the ghost of its thirty-five metre circle, unaware they graze the roof of a chamber built for beings who never died.

In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the Glanooragh River to the S. This rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) and named 'Toberaspagher Fort' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map and 'Toberasphagher Fort' (Site of) on the 1894 OS 6-inch map. The remains of the bank of the rath are visible as a low rise along the W arc and may be partly incorporated into the field boundary at E. In the 1840s, this rath was described as 'remarkable' and it was noted that it derived its name 'from a handsome spring well' (KE058-040002-) which 'is in the eastern extremity of it' (OSNB, Kilcredane, 15). There is a possible Man-made underground passage (KE058-040003-) in the rath. 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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