Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Buddaghauns, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Buddaghauns
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.12301, -9.50085
- SMR number
- KE058-043001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on the W end of a ridge on a S-facing slope with a steep drop down to a ravine on the N, S and W sides. A roughly circular area (c. 31m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 1.05m; ext. H 4m) NE-SSE, by a natural scarp (H 4.75m) SSE-SW and elsewhere by the edge of a ravine which drops steeply down to the river below. The interior is level and in pasture. A ledge (Wth 5-6m) outside the scrap S-SW gives ramp-like access to a possible entrance (Wth c. 1.6m) at SW. A drop to the ravine also occurs to the S of this ledge. There is a second possible entrance (Wth c. 2m) at NE between the bank and the edge of the ravine. A low linear earthen bank (L c. 11m) extends E along the edge of the ravine from the NE entrance. The cliff-edge fort is mentioned in the 1840s as Lissagowlane Fort, in the SW end of Buddaghauns (OSNB, Kilcummin, no. 2, 6). It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). A standing stone (KE058-043002-) is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map immediately to the E of the cliff-edge fort. A rath (KE058-044----) is c. 60m to the N on the opposite side of the ravine.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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