What is recorded here

Lios Clochán na Lobhar is a 20-metre stony mound in County Kerry where collapsed walls still mark two possible huts. The larger chamber measures 7.4 by 6.6 metres, with a southeast gap leading toward the second shape. Vegetation has swallowed much of the boundary, but the stone ridge remains high enough to touch. People may have lived inside this narrow oval before the land took it back.

Lios Clochán na Lobhar: KE043-204---- has been described as a circular fort 'about 1 chain (20m) in diameter and 5 feet (1.5m) high composed of earth and stone' (OSNB Garfinny, 33). The extant remains consist of a densely overgrown stony mound, measuring c. 20m NW-SE and c. 11m NE-SW, in which the outline of one or possibly 2 hut-sites can be traced. At the NW end of the mound, a roughly circular area (KE043-204001-), 7.4m x 6.6m, is enclosed by defaced and partly collapsed walling up to 2m high externally and 1m internally. An entrance gap at SE leads to a 2nd possible hut (KE043-204002-). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 635. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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