Building, Lisnagree, Co. Kerry

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Building, Lisnagree, Co. Kerry

On the coastal plain beside Tralee Bay, within about 275 metres of the seashore, there is almost nothing left to see.

A barely discernible raised area in the ground is all that remains of a ringfort that was levelled around the early 2000s, erasing what had survived for well over a thousand years. The loss is particularly pointed given what was recorded here while the site was still intact.

When members of the Co. Kerry Field Club visited in 1946, the ringfort, a roughly circular enclosure of the kind built across Ireland during the early medieval period, was still legible enough to reveal its interior features. At the centre stood an oblong foundation measuring approximately 35 feet by 20 feet, the footprint of a rectangular building that once occupied the heart of the enclosure. More intriguing still was a blocked-up opening in the western sector leading to a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber, typically stone-lined, that was commonly built beneath early medieval settlements for storage or concealment. The blocking of the souterrain entrance suggests the passage had already gone out of use before the site was abandoned, though when that happened, and why, is not recorded. The ringfort sits within the broader landscape of the Corca Dhuibhne region, the Dingle Peninsula, an area unusually dense with early medieval and prehistoric remains.

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