Leacanabuaile

 ( National Monuments In County Kerry ) 

Leacanabuaile is a stone ringfort (cashel) and National Monument in County Kerry, Ireland.

• (2016). 9781631213205, Avalon Publishing. . ISBN 9781631213205
• Leacanabuaile is immediately northwest of Cahergal, northwest of Cahirciveen.

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History The cashel was built around the 9th century AD as a defended farmstead.

The Irish name means "hillside of the milking-place".

• (2017). 9780192806710, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780192806710

The site was excavated in 1939–40; objects found included iron knives and pins, bone combs, bronze, millstones, and lead, dating from the 9th or 10th century AD.

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Description Leacanabuaile is a circular stone ringfort ( caiseal) of internal diameter with outer walls over high and thick.

Jon Henderson (2007). 9781134076123, Routledge. . ISBN 9781134076123

Protected on three sides by steep grassy slopes, the entrance is on the east side. It is built of drystone with gaps filled in with rubble.

Inside are three stone and a souterrain.

Categories: National Monuments In County Kerry, Archaeological Sites In County Kerry

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