Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Glanmane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanmane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21326, -9.95905
- SMR number
- KE036-104----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a steep east facing slope near the entrance to a N-S valley with extensive views north to Tralee Bay. The land use is rough grazing for sheep with exposed rock outcrops, thin peat cover and heather. Located directly uphill from a cabin and hut site. Clochán (ext. dims. 3.5m E-W x 3.1m N-S; max H 1.6m) built on a square base with the remains of a collapsed corbelled roof above the S facing entrance lintel (H 0.75m; Wth 0.6m). The structure is partially dug into the slope to the W and has a small, level terrace (Wth 0.8m), built around the E and S walls.
See attached images courtesy of Tony Miller
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Tony Miller
Date of upload: 25 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.