Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ceathrúin An Phúca, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrúin An Phúca
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.13694, -10.33261
- SMR number
- KE052-050----
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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
This site is now marked only by a slight eminence which measures 12m NE-SW x 20m NW-SE x less than .5m in height. It was marked on the 2nd edition of the OS map as a rectangular enclosure with a souterrain, known as the Red Cave, at its NW corner. On the 1st edition of the OS map the site was depicted as a univallate circular enclosure and was marked about 150m N of the present remains. It was described in the OSNB (Kildrum, 36) as a circular fort about 1.5 chains (30m) in diameter and 2 feet (.6m) high with the entrance to the souterrain located at its centre. The latter was said to link up with another ringfort on the S boundary of the townland (KE053-001----).
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 651. 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.