Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gullaba, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gullaba
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87014, -9.43859
- SMR number
- KE094-024----
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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 rough pasture, on a N-facing slope, overlooking the Glashagoruv River to the N. Indicated as an embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 18m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map and on the 1895 OS 6-inch map the enclosing element survives SSE-NE incorporated into the field boundary system. The remains comprise an arc of rough drystone wall (L 22m; T 1.2m; ext. H 1.5m) NW-NE. The interior, which slopes down to the N, is on the same level as the top of the drystone wall. Loose stones from the outer flank of the wall are scattered on the tree-covered downslope. The cashel has been damaged and some of it levelled during land reclamation.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.