Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Innisfallen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Innisfallen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04643, -9.55375
- SMR number
- KE066-072006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On Innisfallen Island in Lough Leane. According to Barrington (1976, 212), 'between the landing stage and the main monastery there are the vestiges of a beehive hut'. This possible clochan is reputedly located along the E shoreline near the modern pier. A mound of stone (dims. c. 6m E-W; c. 5m N-S; H c. 1.3m), which is heavily overgrown, may represent a collapsed beehive structure or a clearance-mound from 20th-century works on the island (OPW file). (Weaver 1995)
M. Weaver 1995 'An architectural survey of Inisfallen Island, Lough Leane, Co. Kerry.' MA Thesis, Dept. of Archaeology, UCC.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.