What is recorded here
That is one of the smallest recorded rooms in Ireland. It fits inside a rath in County Kerry, and its stone edge still stands sixty centimetres above the ground. The chamber measures 4.2 metres by 1.5 metres, narrow enough for a lamp, a bench and little else. Anyone who sat there would have known the shape of the world before modern rooms forgot it.
The remains of a subrectangular hut are centrally located in the rath's interior. Its stony bank is .6m high, and its sunken interior measures 4.2m x 1.5m.
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. 507. 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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