Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Berneens, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Berneens
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06761, -9.16619
- SMR number
- CL005-198----
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Shown on 4 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
In elevated rocky pasture overlooking the Ballyvaughan valley to the N and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). A subcircular hut site (ext. dims. 6.2m N-S; 6m E-W) defined by a grassed-over stone bank (H 0.5-0.7m) with possible outer facing (H 0.2m) to the E. The ground falls sharply outside the bank to the N and E, and is fairly level with the bank to the S and W. The entrance (Wth 1.6m) is at W. The interior is dished (3.2m N-S; 3m E-W; D 0.4-0.6m).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.