Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Meenogahane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meenogahane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45309, -9.76312
- SMR number
- KE008-024----
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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
Promontory fort described in 2002 as follows; ‘A curving 75m long west-facing headland is fortified by a straight earthen bank and external fosse. The bank averaged 1m high, 2.3m wide and the fosse, 3m – 4m wide averages 80cms deep below outer field level. The fosse becomes wider and deeper close to the northern cliff edge. Either one of two gaps, one close to the southern cliff and the other 8m from the northern edge, may reflect the original entrance. A faint lip, hinting at a perimeter bank, runs along the southern cliff edge. Sheer cliffs flank the promontory and the shore is inaccessible from within’ (Casey 2002, 61, no. AA).
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 Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.