Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Currach Gráige, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currach Gráige
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.22392, -10.35180
- SMR number
- KE033-003003-
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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
On the lower slopes of Ballydavid Head, overlooking Smerwick Harbour and the level plain drained by the Feohanagh river, are the very ruined remains of what would appear to be a small cashel KE033-003---- with 3 hut-sites in the interior.
The heaps of collapsed stones are extremely confused but an enclosing wall is vaguely discernible along the W perimeter. This is now represented by a bank of small stones with some intermittent stretches of facing still surviving. The outline of 3 hut-sites, abutting the inner edge of the wall, are also traceable. The largest of these (KE033-003001-) is circular with an internal diameter of c. 5m, but the others are less clear.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 558. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 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.