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
- 51.78034, -9.23583
- SMR number
- CO093-085----
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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
In rough hill grazing, on a terrace on the S-facing slopes of Shehy Beg. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 2.8m) are defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.3m) the base of which is protruding above the surface of the bog. The interior of the hut site is level and the entrance (Wth 0.7m) is situated at the NNE.
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.