Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Baile Uí Bhuinn, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Uí Bhuinn
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.26080, -10.14881
- SMR number
- KE026-020002-
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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
Cashel KE026-020---- containing traces of 2 or possibly 3 huts and a now inaccessible souterrain. It crowns a local eminence (58 feet/18m OD) about 200m from Caher Point on the W side of Brandon Bay.
In the WNW sector of the interior a band of grass-grown collapse outlines the site of a hut and there is a faint suggestion of a 2nd hut immediately to SW. Within the remains of the wall of the 1st hut, a short section of a drystone-built souterrain passage has been exposed by the removal of a roofing slab. It is c. 0.66m wide but is infilled almost to the roof. It appears to run in a N-S direction and may have turned W from its N end but this is not certain. A very disturbed, sub-circular spread of stones, immediately SE of the centre of the enclosure, may mark the site of a 3rd hut but can equally well be interpreted as clearance debris.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 548. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 10/1984).
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