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<< Our Photo Pages >> Leacanabuaile - Stone Fort or Dun in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Kerry

Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Sunday, 10 May 2020  Page Views: 9753

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Leacanabuaile
Country: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Kerry Type: Stone Fort or Dun
 Nearest Village: Cahirsiveen
Map Ref: V4463781059
Discovery Map Number: D83
Latitude: 51.960420N  Longitude: 10.260988W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Leacanabuaile
Leacanabuaile submitted by jwells0612 : Leacanabuaile, 2019 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Prominently sited on top of a massive rock in Co. Kerry, this fine stone fort has a reconstructed dry-stone wall 3 metres thick (but now only 1.2 metres high), adapting to irregular outcrops of rock. There is a wall-entrance on the SW and remains of 2 terraces on the NE. Steps lead up to them at 10 points. There were formerly 3 beehive-shaped huts inside, but only one survives, with a (later) square house built against it and on top of the ruins to two other houses.

The round house abuts the wall of the fort, and from its doorway a hole in the floor leads into a souterrain some 10 metres long, ending in a wall-chamber. There is another wall-chamber, entered by a short passage, in the NE part of the wall.

~ 300 metres N of Leacanabuaile is another stone fort called Cahernagat (Cathair na gCat).

~ 400 metres SE of Leacanabuaile is Cahergal, a fine but ruinous stone fort, in the centre of which is a large oval dry-stone house withy walls surviving to a height of 1.5 metres.

~ Just over 8 km SW, in Cool East (V 373755), N of the northern road leading SW from Knightstown is Killadreenagh, is an ancient burial ground with an Ogam pillar some 1.9metres high, engraved with a Latin cross. About 100 metres NW of this, on higher ground, is a low wedge-tomb with a single capstone 3 x 2.5 metres and a portico. South of the road is another Ogam pillar. There are several pillarstones and an alleged (but dubious) stone circle in the landscape to the E.

~ Almost 10 km ENE are Ballyanahow Beg petroglyphs.
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Leacanabuaile submitted by jwells0612 : Leacanabuaile, 2019 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Leacanabuaile submitted by jwells0612 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Leacanabuaile submitted by jeffrep : Leacanabuaile Stone Fort's walls have, as have the walls of nearby Cahergal Stone Fort, been reconstructed and measure almost 10 feet thick and almost four feet high. Its outer walls have been dated to as early as the 6th Century. In the enclosure are the also reconstructed remains of a circular building (with a souterrain) and three square buildings. The interior of Leacanabuaile Fort is much mo... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Leacanabuaile
Leacanabuaile submitted by jeffrep : Leacanabuaile Stone Fort from a distance. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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V4480 : Sunset at Leacanabuaile ring fort by Hansjoerg Lipp
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V4480 : Leacanabuaile ring fort by Hansjoerg Lipp
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V4480 : House at Leacanabuaile stone fort, Kimego West, Cahersiveen, County Kerry by Phil Champion
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V4480 : Sunset at Leacanabuaile ring fort by Hansjoerg Lipp
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V4480 : House at Leacanabuaile stone fort, Kimego West, Cahersiveen, County Kerry by Phil Champion
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