Hut site

The National Monuments Service's description

Kilfountan Church and Calluragh burial ground/Teampall Fionntain: A roughly D-shaped or sub-oval enclosure within which are the remains of an oratory and rectangular hut, a cross-inscribed ogham stone and a bullaun stone. A quernstone from the site, probably of Disc A type (Caulfield 1969, 64 and 69), is now in the Museum in Cork. Children were still being buried here in the 19th century (OSNB Kildrum, 31). The site is located in the low-lying, level plain that lies N of Dingle Harbour.

Hut site (KE043-144004-): The foundations of a rectangular hut lie in the N corner of the E part of the enclosure, the enclosure bank and internal dividing bank forming its W and N walls. It measures c. 5.2m E-W x 4.15m N-S internally. The walls are largely reduced to low banks but the inner face is preserved to a height of .42m at the NW and SW corners.

The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 849. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 8 August 2013