What is recorded here
This site is marked on the 1840-41 OS map as a sub- rectangular enclosure; on the later edition of 1916 the S side has been cut by a fieldbank running NE- SW. 'Cave' is marked on the 1916 map. Today this site consists of a semi-circular enclosure containing two possible beehive chambers; its opening on the S side is now filled in. The W chamber is semi-circular, 11m E-W. The stone bank is .8m high. To the E is the second possible chamber the W side of which touches the first chamber's E side. It measures 15m E-W, and the enclosing bank is .6m high.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1124. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 20 August 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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