Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile An Lochaigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An Lochaigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.21517, -10.26522
- SMR number
- KE034-083----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
About 40 to 50m SW of KE034-084----. A pair of roughly circular conjoined huts of corbelled drystone construction. E hut has been modified for use as a sheepshelter. Two wall niches. Communicating passage with W hut is 1.5m long, .8m high and .5m wide. D: 3.5m. H: 1.7m. T: l.2m. W hut has 3 wall niches. D: 3.1 x 2.8m. H: 2.75m. T: 1.2m.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1056. 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.