Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
An Ghlaise Bheag, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Ghlaise Bheag
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20878, -10.36153
- SMR number
- KE033-026----
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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 small triangular southwest-facing headland is cut off from the mainland at the narrowest point of the isthmus by a 4m wide shallow fosse. Slight rises in the field level on either side of the ditch hints at the previous existence of earthen banks or walls. The interior is flat, level and featureless and the cliff edges are sheer, making the sea below inaccessible from the headland. An earthen bank runs along the adjacent coastline and the area is one of rolling fertile pasture, and this may be the site referred to in the name ‘Dooneen Pier’, some distance to the north’ (Casey 2002, 50, no. Q).
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 Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.