Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Killelan West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killelan West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95136, -10.28765
- SMR number
- KE079-138----
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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
Possible promontory fort described in 2003 as follows; ‘A long sloping south facing headland has the remains of a hut site at the southern tip of the promontory. This consists of a low grassed over collapsed wall foundation describing an area about 6m in diameter. A shallow depression across the neck of the headland is the only indication of an enclosure. The area is one of fertile pasture with traces of earlier cultivation visible in uncleared and undrained pockets of land. The site is overlooked by higher ground to the north. The sloping sea ricks to the south suggest the headland was once larger than the present remains imply' (Casey 2003, 30, no. G).
References
Casey, M. 2003 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
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- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.