Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Mám An óraigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mám An óraigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14388, -10.35882
- SMR number
- KE042-141003-
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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
National Monument No. 10044. Kilcolman/Cill na gColmán: An Early Christian church site KE042-141001- lying on the S slopes of an E-W spur of Lateevemore, overlooking Ventry Harbour.
(2) The ruined foundations of a rectangular structure, 7.2m N-S x 3m E-W, can be seen on the roughly circular level terraced area at the W side of the enclosure. Directly N of this is a stone and earth mound measuring c. 5m x 3m up to 1.2m in height; its origin is not known.
Abutting the enclosure bank at S is a circular foundation, c. 3.9m in diameter, its S side defined by the enclosing bank and its N side by a low stony bank no more than .3m high.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 868. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 9 August 2013
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.