What is recorded here

Clochan in Baile Mór Thiar is a circular rath on a south-facing slope above Ventry Harbour, preserving one small hut rather than a grand hall. Its ruined wall still marks a four-point-seven-metre circle, reduced mostly to a narrow band of fallen stone, with a low platform beside the probable southwest entrance. The place belongs to the quiet sea edge, where a small dwelling faced the water and the hill held its shape long after its makers left it behind.

Circular rath KE052-055---- lies on a S facing slope overlooking Ventry Harbour and contains the remains of a single hut. The ruined remains of a clochaun KE052-055001- lie in the centre of the enclosure. It is 4.7m in diameter and the wall is generally reduced to a band of stone collapse, .7m wide and up to .8m high. Only very short stretches of the wall faces survive. The entrance was probably at the SW point. A low platform, .2m high and c. 3m wide, abuts the inner edge of the bank at SW; its origin is not clear. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 328. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

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