Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballycrinnigan, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycrinnigan
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49657, -6.86024
- SMR number
- CW026-082----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
On a steep NW facing slope, a circular hut (int. diam. c. 3.7m; int. H. of walls 0.1-0.5m; ext. diam. c. 5.5m) set in peat with an E facing entrance (Wth 1.25m). A large stone (1.3m x 1m) is located on the edge of the entrance to the N. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 86) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: H03).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 13 November 2013
References
Ó Murchú, S. 2011 Life and Death on Dranagh Mountain; An Archaeological Investigation of an Upland Landscape in County Carlow. Unpublished MA thesis, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Ó Murchú, S. 2013 Archaeology among the blackthorns. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 2012, Vol. XXI, 35-55, Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.