Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballycullane (corkaguiny By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycullane (corkaguiny By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.14974, -9.95442
- SMR number
- KE045-091----
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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
The large, irregularly-shaped enclosure at this location is probably relatively modern, and the enclosing walls do not differ significantly in construction or size from adjacent field walls. It measures 53.8m E-W x 60.4m N-S internally and the walls are up to 3m wide and 1.6m high. However, the site is known locally as An Chathair, and the cashel which formerly occupied the site is thought to have been knocked down to provide building material for the present enclosure. There was also reputedly a souterrain at the site (local information; An Seabhac 1939, 199).
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 617. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.