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
- 52.24040, -10.29150
- SMR number
- KE034-007001-
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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 group of 7 conjoined structures now incorporated into modern field walls. These consist of 2 enclosures which are probably late features, 3 small structures which may have been either huts or animal pens and which clearly pre-date the field walls, and 2 circular conjoined huts with a communicating passage. These latter measure 4.7 to 3.8m and 7m in diameter internally and their walls stand to a maximum height of 1m. The W hut KE034-007---- has 4 wall niches and a blocked recess which may have opened into a wall-chamber. The E hut KE034-007001- has 2 wall niches, and has been converted for use as a sheep-shelter by the addition of 2 cross-walls in the interior. One of the field walls overlies the S part of its wall.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1129. 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.