What is recorded here
One chamber holds two facts: a starved man and a willing woman. She walked out with him, not in front of him, and that choice is the whole story. The room keeps her name because she gave it up, not because she lost it.
Calluragh burial ground (KE034-014001-) /An Cheallúnach: Two cross-slabs stand within this irregular, stone-walled enclosure which lies about 500m to NE of Faha village, on the S slopes of an E spur of Brandon mountain.
(2) (KE034-014005-) This stone is .38m wide, .1m thick and .35m high. Its flat W face is inscribed with a circle which contains faint traces of other markings, perhaps a Maltese cross.
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The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 835. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 8 August 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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