What is recorded here

Kilshannig holds round stone cells beside a forgotten church, buries them slowly in moving sand, and resists easy description. Henry Stokes saw the structures before the beach claimed them, then lost sight of the whole place for twenty years. The coast keeps its own calendar, deleting what human memory believes permanent.

These monuments are not mentioned in the 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' (Cuppage 1986, 324) entry (no. 858). The source of the information on these huts is uncertain but may be from a reference by Henry Stokes (PRIA vol. 15, p. 23) who describes a 'very old church…and round crypts or cells built of stone'. Stokes continues: 'the sand will soon smother them all… I have not seen them for twenty years' (ibid.).

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