Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Caher West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caher West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Shanagarry Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 51.89593, -9.53451
- SMR number
- KE093-006----
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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
In pasture, on the N side of the valley of the Roughty River. The castle has been removed by quarrying. It was named 'site of Shanagarry Castle' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. In the 1840s it was recorded as the 'ruin of an old castle almost erased' (OSNB, Kenmare no. 4, 2). 'Shangarry' was described in 1841 as having its foundations only barely traceable and only one wall remaining with evidence of grouting (OSL, 183). Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 38) noted that 'the foundation is only now visible'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.