What is recorded here
Location within a forestry plantation on the E bank of an upper tributary of the Carhan river, which flows N from Lough Rehill down the steep slopes of Foilclogh. A corbelled drystone hut of roughly rectangular plan, with an entrance at E. D: 2.2m x 1.7m. Adjacent at S is a .5m wide entrance to a semi-subterranean drystone, lintelled chamber, 2m long E-W.
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. 1326. 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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