What is recorded here

Inside the southern half of a Kerry rath, a drystone hut once stood with a 6.2m circular chamber and a possible north-west entrance. The completed structure has vanished, leaving only foundation stones and a dense northern scatter to mark its shape. Whoever built it likely expected the wall to exclude rain, hold heat and divide the interior into a small livable world. The rath still surrounds that absence, preserving the footprint of a house now reduced to a shallow stone outline.

The foundations of a subcircular, drystone-built hut (KE079-092001-), marked 'Cloghaun (site of)' on the OS maps, are located in the S half of the rath's interior. It has an internal diameter of 6.2m and a possible entrance at NW. Its interior is filled with stone, and a particularly dense stone scatter abuts it externally at N. 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. 530. 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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