Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
An Cheapaigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cheapaigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.25302, -10.15998
- SMR number
- KE035-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
External diam. 16m
A roughly circular enclosure situated on a SE facing slope about 100m from the W shore of Brandon Bay. The vegetation in the interior is impenetrable and the enclosing bank could only be inspected in parts. The bank is composed of earth and stones but could originally have been a stone wall, now collapsed and grass-grown. Intermittent traces of drystone facing are visible along its inner face but only a single course is preserved. On the downslope side, the bank is revetted externally with drystone masonry to a height of 1.3m. The foundation for this walling appears to have been a natural outcrop of rock .8m high. A 6m wide terrace, outside the enclosure on the downslope side, is retained by a short stretch of drystone masonry. This site may be that described in the OSNB (Cloghane, book 1, 44) as a calluragh, 'in the form of a fort and circular... and about 2 feet high composed chiefly of stones'.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 360. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 6 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.