Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
An Baile Breac, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Baile Breac
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.21486, -10.29869
- SMR number
- KE034-066001-
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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, in rough pastureland. A pair of circular conjoined huts, now incorporated into a field wall, with a 3rd hut lying 15m to SW.
(2) (KE034-066001-) A possible independent entrance at SW. D: 4.4 to 4.9m. H: 1.6m.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1087. 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.