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Ringfort - cashel

Fermoyle (Dunkerron South By.), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Fermoyle, 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
Fermoyle (Dunkerron South By.)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.88229, -9.90118
SMR number
KE091-025----

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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. 22.7m N-S, 21m E-W
This site, not marked on the OS maps, is located on the summit of a low rise in rough pasture on the E side of the Small river valley, overlooking the estuary of the Sneem river. Its enclosing wall is now reduced to a sod-covered stone bank which is flush with the level of the interior of the site. It survives to a maximum external height of .95m at N, where it is faced with rough drystone masonry and is intermittently revetted by slabs set on edge. The sides of a well-defined entrance gap at E, 2.65m wide, are faced with upright slabs. The interior of the site is bisected by a modern fence. Towards its centre is a semicircular arc of walling, probably the remains of a hut (KE091-025001-), which measures 3.8m in internal diameter and survives as a neatly coursed wall of drystone masonry, .6m wide and .15m 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. 585. 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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