What is recorded here

Clochan in Fán is a ruined chambered structure on the lower south slopes of Mount Eagle in County Kerry. It began as a multiple clochaun with four or five chambers aligned north to south, but time and perhaps human reuse reduced it to a stone cairn hiding a circular foundation and rectangular enclosure. The grass-grown banks still mark rooms where people may have stored grain, sheltered animals or tended hearths before the roof collapsed. What remains is not a complete house but a skeleton of one, waiting for imagination to finish its shape.

On lower S slopes of Mount Eagle. Described by Macalister (1899, 219) as a multiple clochaun with 4 or 5 chambers lying in a N-S line. The site is now reduced to a cairn of stones, in the S end of which can be seen the foundation of a circular structure, 4m in diameter. This has an entrance at E, and a 2nd entrance at N which leads into a sub-rectangular enclosure, 5 x 3.5m, which is defined by a grass-grown bank or wall. About 2m to N of the latter is an arc of bank possibly indicating the position of a 3rd structure. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1266. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

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