Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Kilconly North, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilconly North
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55909, -9.66299
- SMR number
- KE001-049----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Possible promontory fort described in 2002 as follows; 'Erosion has obliterated most of the soil cover from two needle-thin projections [KE001-048---- and KE001-049----] south of Kilconly Point along the southern shore of the Shannon estuary mouth. Two modern earthen field banks cut off the headlands from the surrounding pasture and close to the neck of each promontory are undulations across the isthmus, suggesting from afar the remains of banks or walls cutting off the headlands. These sites were not examined in detail at ground level and remain only possibilities until further inspection takes place' (Casey 2002, 52, no. S).
References
Casey, M. 2002 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.