Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
Duagh (corkaguiny By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Duagh (corkaguiny By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21617, -9.96689
- SMR number
- KE036-117----
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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 rough grazing land, on a broad terrace near the base of a S-facing slope with views over Tralee Bay, hut site (KE036-118----) 18m to NW. Site overgrown with briars and bracken but otherwise in good condition. Present remains consist of a clochan (dims. 2.4m N-S x 2.6m E-W; H 1.5m) set into the E side of a rectangular dry-stone enclosure (dims. 6m N-S x 5m E-W; Wth 0.6m; H 1m). The clochan has a lintelled entrance on its N side (Wth 0.6m X H 0.6m) which faces onto the entrance (Wth 0.5m) of the enclosure. A short distance (L 2.4m) out from the E and N sides of the enclosure is a low bank (H 0.5m) which would have functioned as both protection for the entrance and as a way of funnelling animals into the enclosure. A short distance (L. 5m) to the N is a length of bank (H c.0.7m) which would have both sheltered and hidden the structures from view when approaching from the coastal strip below.
See attached images courtesy of Tony Miller
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Tony Miller
Date of upload: 23 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.