Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Shandrum, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shandrum
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 51.86651, -9.42727
- SMR number
- KE094-025----
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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 a level terrace, near the base of cliffs on the N-facing slope of Bird Hill. A circular area (int. 16.4m N-S; 16.1m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (T c. 1.4m; int. H c. 1.2m; ext. H c. 1.2m) NNE-W and by a low bank of earth and stones W-NNE. The level interior is covered with rushes and grass. Loose stones are scattered along the internal and external wall flanks and a large glacial erratic is situated outside the cashel to the NW. Field-clearance material, which is piled up against the arc of the wall W-NNE, has damaged this section of the wall.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.