Man-made underground passage in Gleann Fán — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Gleann Fán holds two stone chambers joined by a narrow creepway, buried beneath a hillside east of the Glanfahan river. Macalister measured the outer room at three metres long and the inner room at three metres wide in 1899, but a low opening and a field clearance cairn have since hidden the entrance from most viewers. The passage may have served as a seasonal refuge, a hiding place, or a domestic store, yet its makers left no name behind. What remains is a drystone shape in the earth, waiting to be remembered rather than recorded.

On E side of Glanfahan river. A clochaun (KE052-211----) 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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