Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - vernacular house
Glanmane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanmane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21295, -9.96053
- SMR number
- KE036-114----
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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
Sited on a level terrace near the top of a steep E facing slope with views over Tralee Bay. The land use consists of rough, upland grazing for sheep. This is a large two phase monument consisting of a E-W rectangular house (int. dims. 7.8m x 2.8m; wall T 0.8m; max H 0.9m) built over the older remains of a large hut site. The sub-circular hut site (ext. dims. 3.2m N-S x 3.2m E-W) with possible entrance (Wth 0.7m) at S. The larger possible house site has been partially built over the W wall of the hut site and dug into the slope at its W end. Orientated east-west it measures (int.) 7.8m L and 2.8m W. The house has a small internal division c. 2m from the W end. There is no obvious entrance.
See attached images courtesy of Tony Miller
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Tony Miller
Date of upload: 25 January 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.