Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Murorgán, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murorgán
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.27514, -10.16604
- SMR number
- KE026-005----
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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
Located within a farmyard and probably built in fairly recent times as an outbuilding. A circular hut, the walls rising vertically for 1.45m externally and .85m internally before being corbelled inwards to form the roof. D: 2.4m. H: 2.4m. T: .94m.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1408. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.