Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Shehy Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shehy Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.78153, -9.23063
- SMR number
- CO093-079001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough hill grazing, on bog, on the N side of a terrace on the upper S-facing slopes of Shehy Beg. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 2.3m) defined by a wall (T 0.6m; H 0.5m) which consists mainly of large slabs, some of which are set at right angles to the perimeter. The level interior, which in pasture, is raised (H 0.1m) at the S and cut (D 0.2m) into the upslope at the N. The entrance (Wth 0.6m) is at the SE. Another hut site (CO093-079002-) is c. 70m to the SW.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.