Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Cloghfune (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghfune (magunihy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.99024, -9.53503
- SMR number
- KE074-045----
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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
Located within Killarney National Park on remote stony heather-covered hill pasture on W-facing slopes with views to the Upper Lake. A field system and house are indicated on the OS 6-inch map. These are the largely collapsed remains of an abandoned 18th-/19th-century settlement. The roofless and partially collapsed house remains (int. 5.4m NE-SW; 3.2m NW-SE) have a masonry stone and clay mortar wall (H 1-2m; T 0.7m) with a door opening at NW. Part of the SE gable is intact. An animal enclosure abuts the SE corner externally. The roughly constructed field walls, in the surrounding area, are collapsing. There are several large field clearance cairns in some of the fields. From a distance they look like small bee-hive huts.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Building1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.