Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortnagane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnagane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.03963, -9.25445
- SMR number
- KE068-023----
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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 pasture, on the lower N-facing slopes of The Paps of Dana. A slightly raised D-shaped area (dims. 20m E-W) abutting a linear N-S field boundary (L 20m) at W. Indicated as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1894 and 1846 OS 6-inch maps with the W arc incorporated into the field boundary system. In the 1940s it was described as a 'derelict cathairín' with only 'a few stones in a circle' remaining (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). There is another cashel (KE068-022001-), known as 'the City', c. 100m to the NW.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.