Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
An Mhín Aird Thiar, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Mhín Aird Thiar
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Minard Head
- Latest-edition OS map
- Minard Head
- Coordinates
- 52.11372, -10.14627
- SMR number
- KE054-091----
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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
Described by Casey (2002, 64) as; ‘Not yet visited this long narrow ridge-backed headland seems to have been cut off some 100m from the tip by a wide earthen bank and external fosse.’
References
Casey, M. 2002 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.