What is recorded here

Gleann Fán holds a two-chambered stone passage on the east bank of the Glanfahan river, its narrow entrance now reduced to a twenty-four-centimetre gap that bars modern entry. Macalister described an outer chamber three metres long, a creepway barely wide enough for a shoulder, and an inner chamber stretching nearly as far again. The hidden depth suggests people valued privacy, shelter or ceremony enough to cut rooms into the hillside rather than build above it.

On E side of Glanfahan river. A clochaun now obscured by a field clearance cairn. About 7.5m to N, a large horizontal slab, protruding from the hillside, marks the entrance to a drystone-built Man-made underground passage passage (KE052-211001-) which is now inaccessible due to the low height (.24m) of the opening. Macalister (1899, 251-2) noted 2 chambers connected by a narrow opening. The outer chamber, aligned WSW-ENE, was 3m long x 1.2m high. The creepway measured .6m high x .3m wide, and the inner chamber was 3m long NNE-SSW x 1.5m wide. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1294. 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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