What is recorded here

Na Leadhba Liatha held an eleven-stone circle thirty-six feet across at the head of the Ballinskelligs valley, large enough for a person to walk upright inside and small enough to feel like a cupped hand. The largest stone rose nearly three feet, thick as a door, while a solitary interior marker watched the north. Farmers cleared the stones into a cairn during the 1960s, erasing the hut but preserving its shape in scattered rock. The valley keeps both truths: the disappearance and the memory of a room built without mortar.

At the head of the Ballinskelligs river valley, on gentle SE facing pasture, one field S of a standing stone and boulder-burial (KE097-017001-). A field clearance cairn now occupies the location of this possible hut, removed sometime during the 1960s. Lynch recorded the site as a 'circle of stones', 36 feet (10.97m) in diameter. Eleven stones were set on edge and the largest of these measured 9 feet 9 inches (2.97m) x 2 feet (.61m) x 1 foot (.3m) thick. One stone was located in the interior at N (1902b, 338). 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. 1447. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

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