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
- 52.23084, -10.29773
- SMR number
- KE034-030001-
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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
Roughly circular cashel KE034-030--- is one of a series of such settlements located along the lower W slopes of Brandon mountain.
(1) The interior slopes gently downhill to NW, but the SE sector has been built up slightly, probably to create a level platform for the construction of the stone hut here. The edge of the terrace can be traced for 9.2m from the S wall of the enclosure and is revetted with drystone masonry averaging .5m in height. The outline of the hut, particularly its inner face, is obscured by collapse, but the outer face is traceable along the E half of the structure and for a short distance at W. The wall is a maximum of .9m high internally and 1.35m externally. A small lintelled niche, .45m wide, .5m high and .18m deep, occurs in the inner face at E, .16m above the present ground level. The entrance at NE is represented by a .7m wide gap now faced on its NW side only.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 537. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.