What is recorded here

Cloghaun is a circular hut in a Kerry rath, preserving a small human world inside a larger defensive ring. Its earth and stone wall still stands forty centimetres high, broad enough to suggest warmth, weight and deliberate making. A person may have entered from the southwest, moved through a space barely eight metres across, and left the threshold marked for others. The hut no longer claims much of the landscape, but it still distinguishes a room from a field.

A large circular hut (KE080-028001-), marked 'Cloghaun' on the second edition of the OS map, occupies the NE quadrant of the rath. It is poorly preserved and measures 7.8m in overall diameter. The wall survives as a bank of earth and small stones which stands .4m high and averages 1.2m thick. The structure is best preserved on its N side and an entrance was located at SW (local information). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 539. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

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