Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
An Chathair Bhearnach, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Chathair Bhearnach
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Barnagh Fort
- Coordinates
- 51.85328, -10.12301
- SMR number
- KE089-051----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Internal diam. 18.6m NE-SW, 15.2m NW-SE
Barnagh Fort/An Chathair Bhearnach: This heavily overgrown caher is located in pasture on a small terrace below the saddle that joins Knag and Coomduff. The land slopes down steeply to the Cummeragh river at SE, and the site overlooks Lough Currane to S. The NW sector of its enclosing wall forms part of a modern field boundary system. The sod-covered drystone-faced wall is best preserved along the site's S sector, where it has a maximum external height of 1.7m, is .5m high internally and is 2.6m wide. At E the wall survives as low intermittent stretches of overgrown stone collapse.
A number of ill-defined stony mounds (KE089-051001-) occur in the interior of the caher. These cannot be identified as the remains of hut structures with certainty.
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. 560. 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.