Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahernead, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernead
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.36685, -9.71158
- SMR number
- KE021-016----
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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
Internal diameter 22m N-S, 17m E-W
Directly N of KE021-017---- and situated on a limestone rise is another cahir, although it is now much levelled. It consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a low wide bank. The bank is on average 8m wide at the base and rises to .6m-1m high. Immediately to the N is a large depression which suggests quarrying.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 829. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.