Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Laharan South, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laharan South
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caher
- Coordinates
- 51.91379, -10.19008
- SMR number
- KE079-092----
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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
Internal diam. 22.5m N-S, 21.6m E-W
Caher/An Chathair: This circular univallate rath is located in boggy pasture at the head of the Oghermong river valley. Field boundaries skirt the site at W and N and a deep stream flows alongside it at S. The bank has an average external height of 1.8m, an internal height of .8m and a basal width of 3.9m. Traces of stone-facing, now mostly collapsed, survives on its inner face. A well-defined, stone-faced entrance, 2.3m wide, is located at NNE. A stretch of a flat-bottomed external fosse, measuring 2.8m wide and 1m deep, is extant at E.
The foundations of a subcircular, drystone-built hut (KE079-092001-), marked 'Cloghaun (site of)' on the OS maps, are located in the S half of the rath's interior. It has an internal diameter of 6.2m and a possible entrance at NW. Its interior is filled with stone, and a particularly dense stone scatter abuts it externally at N.
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. 530. 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.