Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knockglass Beg, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockglass Beg
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.22793, -9.88752
- SMR number
- KE037-018001-
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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
Univallate rath KE037-018---- is situated on a N facing slope about 400m from the S shore of Tralee Bay.
The ruins of a stone hut (KE037-018001-) are visible a little NW of centre. This consists of a circular area, about 4m in diameter, enclosed by a low bank of grass-grown collapse about 1.4m wide and .2 to .3m high.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 492. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.