<< Our Photo Pages >> Staigue - Stone Fort or Dun in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Kerry
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Multi-periodSite Name: Staigue Alternative Name: Cathair na StéigeCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Kerry Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Nearest Town: Waterville Nearest Village: Staigue
Map Ref: V6103463272
Discovery Map Number: D83
Latitude: 51.805001N Longitude: 10.015451W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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kith visited on 25th Feb 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Well signposted from the main road. Parking good with toilets on site too.
This restored fort is well worth a visit. You can enter the fort and even climb the walls using the several built in stairways.
Jansold visited on 7th Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Klingon visited on 25th Mar 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
X-Ice visited on 8th Aug 1982 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5
escale1 visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
DrewParsons davidmorgan have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4.6 Access: 4.2
This well-known and restored fort 27 metres in diameter, is splendidly situated at the head of a valley opening S to the sea., and is surrounded by a ditch over 8 metres wide and, at present, 1.8 metres deep. The massive wall reaches a height of almost 5.5 metres and is about 4 metres thick at the base, tapering to about half as thick at the top. Vertical joints in the walls show that gaps left to allow access of carts etc. during building were filled in later. The doorway is tapering and lintelled. Inside is an elaborate system of stairways leading to terraces, and corbelled cells in the wall reached by passages.
~ About 800 metres S of the fort and about 100 metres E of a disused bridge (beside which the road bends to the W) is a large outcrop of rock, visible from the bridge. On it is a fine series of cups and circles and grooves extending for 12 metres along the rock surface.
~ 7.2 kms SW, just 800 metres W of Caherdaniel hamlet and about 200 metres W of the road to Waterville is another stone fort, beautifully situated on a commanding outcrop of rock, whose switchback irregularities make the construction most impressive. Its walls are up to 4.5 metres high and enclose an area 25 metres in diameter.
~ 3.2 km W by N of Caherdaniel, close by the main road to Waterville, near the summit of the Coumakista Pass, is “The Boardeen” (Little Table), a conspicuous but denuded wedge-tomb, whose dramatically-tilted capstone is 4 metres long by 2.4 metres wide and 1.5 metres thick. There are no fewer than 3 other wedge-tombs in the same townland.
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