Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gowlanes, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gowlanes
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 51.78543, -10.04454
- SMR number
- KE107-004----
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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
Internal diam. 22.4m N-S, 24.2m E-W
This circular enclosure, named 'Caher' on the OS Fair Plan, is located in rough pasture in a crook of the Gowlane river. It is poorly preserved and is covered with a dense layer of vegetation. Its enclosing wall survives to an average height of 1.65m, and consists of a rubble core faced internally and externally with drystone masonry. Larger boulders occur in its lower courses, which feature a slight batter. There is much collapse along the NW sector, where the entrance may have been located. Four field walls radiate out from the site, and no features were discerned in its overgrown interior.
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. 593. 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.