What is recorded here

Two circular drystone huts cling to the lower western slopes of the Brandon mountain range, their conjoined walls hiding a meandering underground passage that cuts through earth and stone. The narrow tunnel forces a person to crawl beneath the hill, suggesting these were not merely shelters but deliberate refuges from storm or danger. Whoever built them understood the mountain’s moods and answered them with patient stonecraft.

On lower W slopes of Brandon mountain range. Two circular conjoined huts of drystone corbelled construction, with a Man-made underground passage opening off the base of the E wall of N hut. S hut KE034-035001- has an independent entrance at NNW, and 3 wall niches. An internal division in the hut is probably secondary. D: 4.65m. H: 1.85m. T: 2.45m. A lintelled passage at N leads into the N hut KE034-035----. Souterrain/Wall passage (KE034-035002-): A meandering passage, partly contained within the thickness of the clochaun wall, and partly underlying the ground outside the hut. The lintelled opening is .5m wide x .5m high. The drystone-built passage runs E for 1.1m then S for 1.45m, the latter section being .83m wide and .63m high. It then continues as an earth-cut tunnel, running E again for .75m and NE for 1.8m. The earth-cut section is .6m wide x .6m high. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1147. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

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