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
- 52.23232, -10.27574
- SMR number
- KE034-028----
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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
Cloghaunnageragh/Clochán na gCaorach: On open mountain terrain on W side of Brandon mountain, a little below and to N of Loughs Eightragh and Oughteragh. A roughly oval corbelled drystone clochaun (KE034-028----) with blocked-up lintelled entrance .9m high and .45 to .75m wide. Two wall niches. D: 2.8 x 2.5m. H: 1.5m. A rectangular enclosure, 5.5 x 4m, abuts hut at E, and a small rectangular chamber, 1.5m square, is built against NE corner of this. A 2nd enclosure, 3.5m square, abuts NW side of hut and a D-shaped chamber, 2 x 1.3m, is built against its NW wall.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1024. 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.