Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile Uí Shé, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Uí Shé
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.17453, -10.26652
- SMR number
- KE043-074001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A pair of conjoined circular corbelled drystone huts now partly destroyed and incorporated into a large complex sheep-fold. The communicating lintelled passage is .45m wide, .73m high and 1.5m long, and the lintelled doorway to the exterior, at the E side of the SW hut KE043-074----, is .82m wide and .72m high but now blocked. Each hut has a single small wall niche. D: 3.5m and at least 3.8m. H: 1.55m. T: 1.1 to 1.3m.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1119. 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.