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Ringfort - cashel

Doory (Iveragh By., Mastergeehy ED), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Doory, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Doory (Iveragh By., Mastergeehy ED)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.86692, -10.12223
SMR number
KE089-029----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Internal diam. 23.5m N-S, 20.7m E-W
This ruined subcircular caher is located in rough pasture at the foot of Coomduff ridge, on its W side. The outline of the site along its SE sector is obscured by a later field boundary. The sod-covered enclosing wall survives to a maximum external height of 1m at S. At W it is only .3m high, and internally it does not rise much above .2m. The wall has a basal width of 2.3m. Internal and external stone facings of large flat slabs can be discerned intermittently. There is no clear evidence for an entrance.

A large quantity of stone occupies the interior of the site, some of which, occurring in irregular heaps, appears to be field clearance debris. Traces of a possible hut (KE089-029001-) survive in the S part of the site, represented as a sod-covered arc of stony composition which is 1.3m wide and .5m high.

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. 581. 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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