Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Fán, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fán
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.10540, -10.40509
- SMR number
- KE052-278----
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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
Internal diam. 32m N-S, 28m E-W
A circular cashel situated on a SE facing slope overlooking Dingle Bay. The interior is raised c. 2m above the external ground level on the downslope side, and in the SW quadrant the cashel wall survives as a lm wide, drystone-built revetment to the edge of the scarp; it does not rise above the level of the interior and no inner face is evident. Around the SE part of the site, the wall is reduced to a low stony bank, and for the remainder of the circumference its outline is indicated by a barely discernible bank. Two low uprights at ESE, .9m apart, may mark the original entrance.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 564. 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.