Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile Na Leacan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Na Leacan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.24335, -10.19169
- SMR number
- KE034-015001-
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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
Clochán na hEaglaise: On steep SE facing mountain slope. A circular corbelled drystone hut. D: 3.5m. H: 2.04m. Two wall niches in interior. A small, drystone chamber is built against the exterior, directly N of the entrance at NE. This is sub-rectangular in plan and is roofed by a series of flat slabs. It measures 1.4 x .8m x .65m high internally. There is a tradition that mass was said here in Penal Times (An Seabhac 1939, 227), but the possible cross-inscribed stone KE034-015002- recorded by the CKFC (1949) could not be located. Though the hillside is strewn with rock outcrop and loose scree, a wide, stone-free track leads downhill from the hut for c. 150m in a zig-zag manner, its downslope edge defined by a line of boulders and some upright stones.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1139. 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
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.