What remains of the clochans at Gleann Fán, a glen in the west Kerry Gaeltacht, amounts to little more than vague traces, the kind of thing that rewards a slow and attentive eye rather than a casual glance.

A clochan is a dry-stone corbelled hut, built without mortar by laying flat stones in gradually narrowing rings until they meet at a capstone, forming a beehive-shaped cell. They are associated across the Dingle Peninsula with early Christian monasticism, though some may be considerably older, and they speak to a tradition of solitary or small-community settlement in remote terrain. The two examples at Gleann Fán were recorded by a researcher named Curran, catalogued as number 47 in his work, and later incorporated into the wider Corca Dhuibhne Archaeological Survey published by J. Cuppage in 1986. By the time that survey was compiled, even those who knew where to look found only faint evidence that the structures had ever stood.