Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Coill Bhaile Uí Fhlaithimh , County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coill Bhaile Uí Fhlaithimh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.22207, -9.98400
- SMR number
- KE036-019001-
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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
Oval cashel KE036-019----, containing the ruins of a single clochaun, is situated on fairly level pastureland at the N end of the ridge which separates the valleys of the Owencashla and Meennascarty rivers.
The collapsed remains of a circular clochaun lie a little N of centre in the level interior. It measures 4.3m in diameter internally and is enclosed by a band of loose stones c. 2m wide and up to .8m high. There is no break to indicate the location of the entrance. The drystone-built inner face of the wall is traceable for most of the circumference, but is nowhere more than .35m high.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 578. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.