Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Na Cluainte, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Cluainte
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.17247, -10.40495
- SMR number
- KE042-046----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Hut site described by Cuppage (1986, 436, no. 1552) as follows; 'The hut site in the field to N of the enclosure is roughly circular in outline, measuring 5.95m in diameter internally, and its wall is for the most part represented by a stone and earth bank with sections of the outer wall face visible to a maximum height of 0.4m. Ill-defined entrance gap at W. Abutting the N side of the hut is a small sub-rectangular yard'.
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.