Home / Republic of Ireland / Kerry / Ballyoughteragh South (Baile Uachtarach Thiar)
Ballyoughteragh South (Baile Uachtarach Thiar)
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1259
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1259 (1259)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyoughteragh South
- Latitude
- 52.17359
- Longitude
- -10.45686
- Altitude
- 6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.31 ha, 2.6 ha
- Footprint
- 2.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1841); 1st Identified Written Reference (1910); Earthwork Survey (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE042-034001
- National record
- record KE 042
- Wikidata
- Q31082318
Sources
References
- Cuppage, J. et al. 1986. Archaeological Survey of the Dingle Peninsula. Ballyferriter
- O'Sullivan, A and Sheehan, J. 1996. Iveragh Peninsula: An Archaeological Survey of South Kerry. Cork University Press. Cork
- Redmond, M. 1995. A survey of the promontory forts of the Kerry peninsulas. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 28, 5-63.
- Westropp, T.J. 1910. Promontory forts and similar structures of County Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 40, 179-213, 265-196