Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Shehy Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shehy Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.78701, -9.22217
- SMR number
- CO093-115----
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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
A sub-rectangular hut site situated at the western end of a level terrace with an enclosure c.40m to the east. It has clear views over the main plateau of Shehy Mountain including further hut sites on the next ‘step’ down to the east (CO093-077001-to CO093-077005-). It measures c.4m east- west and c. 1.8m north-south with no clear entrance location. A c. 10m length of field boundary running north-south lies c. 2m to the east of this hut site.
Compiled by: Tony Miller
Date of upload/revision: 4 March 2022
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.