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
- 51.95368, -10.31963
- SMR number
- KE079-140----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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; ‘Several lines of boggy earth seen from the air running across the headland correspond to a deep cleft crossing a narrow isthmus. The site has not yet been inspected at ground level. The area is one of mountainous highlands with a shallow covering of boggy land and outcropping rock' (Casey 2003, 32, no. I).
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 Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.