What is recorded here

Na Gearreidhní holds a small circular caher beside the Oweveen river, where a later hut still stands inside the older ring. The outer wall has thinned to a low rib of stone and sod, but the inner chamber keeps its shape with a narrow door and thick drystone walls. Sheep use the completed circle today, filling the space that people once shaped for residence, storage or protection. The fords, pasture and river traffic probably drew life to this spot long before the stones became a fairy fort in local memory.

Internal diam. 16.3m N-S, 14.7m E-W This small circular caher is located in boggy pasture directly S of the Oweveen river, which flows W from Lough Iskanamacteery. A large circular hut, modified for use as a double sheepfold, occupies its centre. The enclosing element of the site is no longer extant along its S sector, and a modern sheepfold interrupts its probable course at SE. A 1.5m wide eroded gap at WSW may represent the original entrance. The enclosing wall is elsewhere faced internally and externally with large boulder-like slabs, set in rough horizontal courses, which enclose a rubble core. The upper surface of the wall is topped with a peaty sod. It has an average external height of 1.1m, an average internal height of .75m, and is 2.5m wide. The hut (KE090-017001-) occupies almost the entire interior of the site and is internally divided by a modern wall. It has an internal diameter of 6.4m 5.9m, and its well-preserved wall of faced drystone masonry is 1.45m high and up to 2m wide. Its E facing entrance, marked by an upright slab on its S side, is 1.1m wide. 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. 588. 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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