Cnoc na gCaiseal

Cnoc na gCaiseal, the 'hill of the stone ring-fort,' takes its name from the defensive earthen structures characteristic of early medieval settlement across the Kerry landscape. The townland is documented in a 1659 census listing twenty-five households in 'Cnocknegassell,' suggesting established habitation during the late medieval and early modern periods. Administratively, Knocknagashel lay wi...