Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Coolnaharragill Lower, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnaharragill Lower
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahernagat
- Coordinates
- 52.02941, -9.99813
- SMR number
- KE063-019----
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Shown on 4 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. c. 21m NW-SE, 19m NE-SW
Cahernagat/Cathair na gCat: This poorly preserved caher is located on the lower E slopes of Drung Hill in land devoted to pasture. It consists of a severely modified and largely denuded stone bank and an external fosse, which enclose a roughly circular area. Modern field walls overlie the bank and the entire site is densely overgrown. The fosse averages 4m wide. Stone was removed from the site for use in the construction of nearby roads in the 1930s and '40s (local information).
A stone-built souterrain (KE063-019001-) featuring three chambers, was discovered in the caher's interior by County Council workers in 1944. Each of the chambers was described as measuring 10 feet (3.05m) long, 4 feet 6 inches (1.37m) wide, and 5 feet (1.52m) high (Irish Press, 8/4/44). A low-creepway joining two of the chambers appears to have been fitted with an arch stone or porthole slab (Cork Examiner, 7/4/44). No apparent surface trace remains of the souterrain.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 570. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.