What is recorded here

Innisfallen Island in Lough Leane, County Kerry, holds a stone mound near the eastern shore that may be a collapsed beehive hut or merely a heap of debris from later work. The ambiguity gives the place a quiet charm, for a clochan should be small, humble and close to the water, yet it has surrendered much of its shape to moss and forgetting. To walk past it is to meet a room that has stopped answering, leaving behind only a slight swelling in the earth and a suggestion that someone once lived there with little more than stone and patience.

On Innisfallen Island in Lough Leane. According to Barrington (1976, 212), 'between the landing stage and the main monastery there are the vestiges of a beehive hut'. This possible clochan is reputedly located along the E shoreline near the modern pier. A mound of stone (dims. c. 6m E-W; c. 5m N-S; H c. 1.3m), which is heavily overgrown, may represent a collapsed beehive structure or a clearance-mound from 20th-century works on the island (OPW file). (Weaver 1995) M. Weaver 1995 'An architectural survey of Inisfallen Island, Lough Leane, Co. Kerry.' MA Thesis, Dept. of Archaeology, UCC. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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