Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile An Lochaigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An Lochaigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.22592, -10.25228
- SMR number
- KE034-159----
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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
'This is the remains of a circular drystone hut, located approximately 40m to the northwest of KE034-051---- in a north-south orientated collapsed field wall. It measures 1.6m east-west by 1.6m north-south internally, the 0.8m thick walls being 0.5m in maximum height. A 0.5m wide entrance opens to the northwest.'
The above description was published in F. Coyne, 'Islands in the clouds: an upland archaeological study on Mount Brandon and the Paps, Co. Kerry.' (Kerry Co. Council in association with Aegis Archaeology, 2006).
Date of upload: 15 December 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.