Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Na Dúnta Thiar, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Dúnta Thiar
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahernacullia (Remains of)
- Coordinates
- 52.11644, -10.17199
- SMR number
- KE054-073----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Cashel described by Cuppage (1986, 201, no. 562) as follows; 'Cahernacullia/Cathair na Coille: This roughly circular cashel lies on the SE slopes of Sea Hill overlooking Dingle Bay. A N-S field wall divides the site into 2 unequal portions, and the enclosing wall to E of this is now reduced to a low grass-grown bank. The remainder of the cashel wall is represented only by its outer face, of large boulders set upright or laid horizontally, and in places by a band of stone collapse. The foundations of a possible pair of circular conjoined huts abut the W side of the field wall, their E limit now obscured by the latter. The ruined walls stand to a height of c. 0.5m and the structures measure 2.7m and 6.52m x 8.9m internally'.
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.