Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahernaman, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernaman
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.99443, -10.08889
- SMR number
- KE070-026----
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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
Marked on the first edition of the OS map as an enclosure with an internal structure, this caher was levelled in the early 1980s. All that remains is a slight platform, 22m N-S, which is situated in gently sloping pasture with distant views of the Valencia river estuary at SW. Ua Riain described the site's enclosing rampart in 1927 as built of 'rough big unmortared stones' enclosing a circular space 92 feet (28m) in diameter. He also noted an 'inner ring', probably a hut-site (KE070-026001-), which measured 49 feet (14.9m) in overall diameter, and a mound, 15 yards (13.7m) from the caher, in which there was an opening to a souterrain (KE070-026002-).
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. 640. 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.