Glanfahan is located on the southern slopes of Mount Eagle, overlooking Dingle Bay, 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Dunquin.[3][4]
History
It is difficult to establish dates for Glenfahan as the drystone technique has been used in Ireland for millennia. However, it is believed to date to the early Christian period (5th–8th centuries AD), linked to the monastic traditions of the region and perhaps the pilgrimage route to Skellig Michael.[5]
Other historians place their construction in the 12th century, when Norman invaders forced the Gaelic Irish to peripheral areas like the Dingle Peninsula.[6][7][8]
It has been theorised that the huts were inhabited by the unfree and cashels by the freemen. Some Irish cashels remained in occupation up to the 18th century AD.[5]
In the 19th century a cross-slab and rotary quern were found in Cahermurphy.[9]
Some of the archeological sites were damaged in the 20th century by agricultural "improvements."[10]
A group of clocháns, built in a traditional corbelling style, form an abandoned village.[13]
Caherconner
An oval-shaped stone cashel containing three beehive huts.[14][15][16]
Cahermurphy
An oval stone cashel 23 m (75 ft) in diameter. The interior is occupied by a group of five conjoined clochauns and a sixth irregularly-shaped structure[9]
Caherfadaandoruis
An unusual cluster with three conjoined chambers, joined by a passage 23 m (75 ft) long.
^Staff, Baedekers Guides; (Firm), Karl Baedeker; Staff, AA Publishing (24 February 2018). Ireland. Automobile Association. ISBN9780749529628 – via Google Books.
