Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Clahane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clahane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.22806, -9.70584
- SMR number
- KE038-128----
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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
'Located on the steeply sloping western side of Scotia’s Glen, overlooking the Finglas River, this group of three stone hut sites provide good views down the glen to the south and to the north, however views to the east and west are limited by the stttep sides of the glen. The sites are located on a narrow scarp and all three remain only as crude foundations built of large stones of red sandstone, with the down-slope (eastern) side of each hut being heavily buttressed by stones piled in against the slope of the ground.
The more northerly hut [038-128----] is circular, 2.4m in internal diameter, the stone wall remaining to a height of 0.42n and a width of 0.7m. There are no clear wall courses and no evidence for an entrance. The middle hut [KE038-129----] is the smallest, being only 2m in internal diameter, the wall remaining to a height of 0.30m and a width of 0.6m. The more southerly hut [KE038-130----] is sub-rectangular measuring 4.8m N-S and 2.4m E-W, built in the same fashion as the two circular examples, the wall remaining to a height of 0.45m and a width of 0.72m. Again no entrance is visible'
Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008
Date of upload: 22 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.