Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ardfert Oughter, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardfert Oughter
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.31842, -9.79491
- SMR number
- KE020-063001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated SW of KE020-064---- in the same field, two fieldbanks touch KE020-063---- on the E and W side. This circular univallate ringfort is enclosed by a well-defined earth and stone bank.
In the N sector of the interior is an oval shaped house site (KE020-063001-) constructed of stone; it is 4.8m N-S and 4.2m E-W, with walls .6m-1m thick.
About 2m to the W of this lies a sub-oval house site (KE020-063002-) 3.8m N-S and 4m E-W; the walls here are also .6m-1m thick. Situated directly below the two stone structures are two depressions measuring 4m x 4.8m and 4.8m x 4.6m.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 668. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.