Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doire Fhionáin Mór, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Fhionáin Mór
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doonbreen
- Coordinates
- 51.76145, -10.12597
- SMR number
- KE106-075----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Doonbreen/Dun Braoin(?): This site is referred to locally as 'Altar Hill', a place where Mass was celebrated in Penal Times (Ó Cíobháin 1984a, 63). It is a steep-sided, rocky knoll with a flat upper surface of roughly circular outline and is located on the N shore of Darrynane Bay. The OSRNB refer to the 'remains of an old fort . . . about 3 chains E of Altar Hill'. There is, however, no indication of a monument at this location now.
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. 666. 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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.