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
- 52.23898, -10.29410
- SMR number
- KE034-006----
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
On lower W slopes of Brandon mountain range. The site of a hut KE034-006---- now marked by a raised oval platform, 10.9 x 9m in extent. Near N edge is the entrance to a drystone-built souterrain passage which extends 2.4m to S, and which is 1m wide and .45m high above the earth and stone debris which covers the floor. It is roofed by 4 large slabs.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1135. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.