Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Cahermountain, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermountain
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.58360, -9.74425
- SMR number
- CO129-028001-
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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 NE-SW terrace on a NW-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay and Bere Island. The remains of a rectangular hut site (4.2m N-S; 1.9m E-W) defined by a roughly built stone wall (T 0.55m; H 0.7m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. An internal E-W stone wall (T 0.4m) forms a separate compartment (Wth 1.4m) in the N quadrant of the structure. Another hut site (CO129-028002-) is c. 7m to the N.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.