Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Com Na Heorna Thoir, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Com Na Heorna Thoir
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1846).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.78362, -10.09093
- SMR number
- KE106-024----
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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
This site is marked as a circular enclosure, titled 'Cave', on the first edition of the OS map. It is named 'Caher, Cave' on the OS Fair Plan, and survives as a large oval-shaped platform with overall dimensions of 37m NE-SW x 26m NW-SE. It rises up to 1.5m above surrounding ground level. Faint traces of an external fosse, 2m wide, are discernible at NE and SW. A mound of field clearance debris in the site's interior is locally reputed to mark the location of the now inaccessible souterrain (KE106-024001-).
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. 660. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.