Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Long Island, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Long Island
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88009, -10.40142
- SMR number
- KE087-106----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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; ‘Not yet visited on the ground, this consists of a curving bank or wall cutting off the eastern end of Long Island. A wide fosse, possibly associated, runs parallel to the bank immediately outside it. A circular enclosure used as a burial ground lies at the extreme lowest point of the island. The nature of the remains is unclear, possibly being too slight ever to have been a defensive structure' (Casey 2003, 38).
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 Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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.