Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile Na Habha (tc Cill Chuáin), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Na Habha (tc Cill Chuáin)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.23965, -10.30116
- SMR number
- KE034-002----
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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 lower W slopes of Brandon mountain range. A pair of roughly circular conjoined huts of corbelled drystone construction. SE hut KE034-002---- has an independent entrance at S now partly blocked by collapse. Upright slabs directly inside entrance may have fallen accidentally into that position or may have been placed there to block the entrance. There are wall niches at SW and E. D: 5.8 to 6.2m. H: 1.3m. The lintels of the communicating passage between the 2 structures are almost level with the ground surface. The passage is now .6m high x .85m wide, but it may have been modified for use as a sheep-or lamb-shelter. The NW hut has a lintelled wall niche at SW, and a possible entrance at NNE, defined by a single low upright slab. The outer part of the wall of the hut is overlain by a modern field wall. D: 4.5m. H: .9m. The souterrain which extended W from this site to a rectangular foundation in the next field is no longer visible (local information).
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1136. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
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