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Caherconree
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0664
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0664 (664)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyarkane Oughter, Beheenagh, Gortaleen Mountain
- Latitude
- 52.19736
- Longitude
- -9.86303
- Altitude
- 659 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.01 ha
- Footprint
- 1.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and wall-walk
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1910)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE046-003
- National record
- record KE 046
- Wikidata
- Q31082114
Sources
References
- Cuppage, J. 1986. Corca Dhuibhne: Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, Dublin.
- Lynch, P. 1899. Caherconree, County Kerry. JRSAI, 29, 5 - 17.
- Lynch, P. 1910. A relic of Caherconree. JRSAI, 40, 357 - 360.
- MacDonogh, S. 1985. A Visitor's Guide to the Dingle Peninsula. Mount Eagle Publications, Dingle.
- Redmond, M. 1999. A survey of the promontory forts of the Kerry Peninsulas. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society. 28. 5 - 63.