Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Laharan North, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laharan North
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96404, -10.29219
- SMR number
- KE079-141002-
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; 'A double wall or bank and fosse [KE079-141001-] can be seen cutting off an area south of a natural swallow hole. A second headland [KE079-141002-] immediately to the north has a depression running across the narrow isthmus. These were seen only from the air and could not be verified on the ground. The area is one of mountainous bog and outcropping rock. The site is overlooked by higher ground to the east' (Casey 2003, 33, no. J).
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 Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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
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