Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
An Baile Breac, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Baile Breac
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.21232, -10.28505
- SMR number
- KE034-078----
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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 W slopes of Brandon mountain. A subcircular, corbelled drystone hut, with the entrance at SSE opening into an irregularly-shaped yard, c. 15m in maximum dimension, and with a lintelled sheep-shelter built against the external wall face at SW. D: 2.7 to 3m. H: 3m. About 6m to S is a small rockshelter, and a little to W is a sheep-shelter apparently built on the ruins of a 2nd hut.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1092. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
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