Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Dunmaniheen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmaniheen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cummer Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.10103, -9.76027
- SMR number
- KE057-060001-
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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
In a garden, immediately N of a bend in the Laune River and S of the main Killarney-Killorglin road (N72). A D-shaped area (20m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 3.5m; ext. H 3.4m) SW-NE and by the straight precipice edges of the river bank (L 24m) to the E and S. An intervening fosse (Wth 6m) is evident SW-NE. An outer bank (Wth 5.05m; int. H 3m; ext. H 1.1m) is visible SW-NW. The interior slopes steeply down to the S. There is a hut site (KE057-060003-) in the interior. Natural springs surface in the fosse along the SW arc. According to local information, a fording point existed at the SW corner of this fort.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.