Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile Cainín, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Cainín
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.19133, -10.28990
- SMR number
- KE043-016----
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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
About 50m W of KE043-017----. A circular drystone hut foundation with rectangular lintelled wall-chambers at SW and NE. SW chamber, .9m wide, .8m high and 1.2m long, may originally have been an entrance which was blocked externally when the site was converted to its present use as a sheep-fold. D: 4.15m. H: 1.5m. T: 1.5 to 2.1m.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1104. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.