Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cathair Na Gaoithe, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cathair Na Gaoithe
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1846).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77264, -10.14024
- SMR number
- KE106-047----
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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. 16m N-S, 15.6m E-W
Situated in rough pasture on a terrace on the S slopes of Farraniaragh mountain, this small circular caher, which is titled 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan, affords a fine prospect over Darrynane Bay to S. The enclosing wall is poorly preserved, with only its sod-covered foundation courses extant for much of its circuit. The wall is most clearly visible in the NE sector, where it consists of a rubble core faced internally and externally with large block-like slabs. Here, it averages 2.9m wide. No definite entrance to the caher is evident, and a field boundary is built on top of the enclosing wall at N.
Scatters of stone, forming low irregularly shaped mounds, and a number of upright slabs occupy the N half of the site's interior. Definite interpretation of these features is not possible.
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. 566. 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 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.