Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile Uí Uaithnín, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Uí Uaithnín
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.20656, -10.15418
- SMR number
- KE035-073006-
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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
Hut site described by Cuppage (1986, 24, no. 25 (f)) as; 'The foundations of this oval hut have been exposed to a height of 0.2m by turf-cutting, but the W part of the outline remains buried beneath 0.3m of uncut peat. It measures 5.5m SW-NE x 5.2m NW-SE internally, and the wall, constructed of a double face of low boulders with a rubble core of smaller stones, is 1.1m thick. A 1m depth of peat remains in the interior of the hut but outside the peat is only 0.3 to 0.5m deep, perhaps indicating that the interior was originally slightly hollowed out of the ground'.
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.