Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile Na Bhfionnúrach, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Na Bhfionnúrach
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghauns
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghauns
- Coordinates
- 52.22872, -10.29543
- SMR number
- KE034-035----
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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
National Monument No. 10066. On lower W slopes of Brandon mountain range. Two circular conjoined huts of drystone corbelled construction, with a souterrain opening off the base of the E wall of N hut. S hut has an independent entrance at NNW, and 3 wall niches. An internal division in the hut is probably secondary. D: 4.65m. H: 1.85m. T: 2.45m. A lintelled passage at N leads into the N hut KE034-035----. D: 4.2m. H: 1.85m.
Souterrain/Wall passage (KE034-035002-): A meandering passage, partly contained within the thickness of the clochaun wall, and partly underlying the ground outside the hut. The lintelled opening is .5m wide x .5m high. The drystone-built passage runs E for 1.1m then S for 1.45m, the latter section being .83m wide and .63m high. It then continues as an earth-cut tunnel, running E again for .75m and NE for 1.8m. The earth-cut section is .6m wide x .6m high.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1147. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.