Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile An Chnocáin (tc Cill Chuain), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An Chnocáin (tc Cill Chuain)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.23241, -10.29609
- SMR number
- KE034-024001-
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. A pair of conjoined drystone structures incorporated into modern field wall. E structure KE034-024---- is a circular hut with an independent entrance at SSE. Passage communicating with W structure KE034-024001- now blocked. W structure is rectangular with independent entrance at ENE. D: 3.4 x 3.4m. H: 1.5m.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1021. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 4 August 2013
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.