Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Fán, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fán
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.10665, -10.42477
- SMR number
- KE052-224----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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
Loc or Clochán Cábún: In rough mountain terrain on the SE slopes of Mount Eagle. A pair of conjoined drystone huts, the N one abutting the SW side of an old field wall. N hut is circular and has been divided internally by a cross-wall, apparently to convert the structure to use as a turf store (Macalister 1899, 240-1). D: 4.1m. H: 1.5m. T: 1.4m. S hut is oval in plan, with a small wedge-shaped chamber, 1.5 x .75m x .45m high, contained within the thickness of the S wall. D: 3 x 2.3m. Traces of a 3rd structure of uncertain function lie to E of the N hut. Macalister recorded that this clochaun group was enclosed by a barely traceable wall but there is no definite trace of this now. A little further S, on the E side of the old field wall, is a large heap of stone collapse, possibly the remains of another hut.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1254. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.