Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Ard Na Caithne, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ard Na Caithne
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dunore
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dunore
- Coordinates
- 52.19088, -10.41424
- SMR number
- KE042-002001-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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
National Monument No. 10018. Westropp, writing in 1910, commented that ‘Nearly every suitable headland that I have met in Mayo, Aran, Clare, Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, with most of those in Cork, have proved to be fortified, so we may be permitted to suppose that the very suitable little headland in Smerwick was not without its early occupants and defences.’ (Westropp 1910, 199) While it appears likely that a promontory fort existed here at a much earlier period, the later fortifications, dating from 1579-80, probably have removed or obscure evidence of the previous works.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 7 November 2017
References
Gowen, M. 1979 Irish artillery fortifications 1550-1700. Unpublished MA thesis, University College, Cork.
Westropp, T.J. 1910 Promontory forts and similar structures in the County Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 40, 179-213.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.