Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortdromakiery, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortdromakiery
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.01225, -9.44422
- SMR number
- KE075-012----
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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 a NW-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the Owgarriff River to the W and the Finow River, flowing into Lough Guitane to the E. This cashel is not visible at ground level. It is indicated on the 1846 and 1894-5 OS 6-inch maps as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). In the 1930s Capt. D. D. O'Connell described it as 'a tiny stone-walled circular rath - one of the smallest I have seen (20 ft [6.1m] in diam. app)' (SMR file).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.