Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Gleann Fán, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleann Fán
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.10338, -10.42593
- SMR number
- KE052-237----
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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
On SE slopes of Mount Eagle. Vague traces of a possible hut foundation, 4m in diameter internally. Extending 4m to N from the site are 2 parallel rows of upright slabs, set .7m apart and terminated at N by a single slab. This may be the remains of the souterrain (KE052-237001-) noted by Macalister (1899, 250) who also noted that this souterrain terminated at its N end just outside a 'circular lios', 4.5m in diameter. No trace of the latter feature survives.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1309. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.