Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile An ásaigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile An ásaigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.16893, -10.25101
- SMR number
- KE043-095001-
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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 roughly circular huts, of drystone corbelled construction, set 20m apart. In rough rocky mountain pasture on a shoulder of S slopes of Ballysitteragh/Beennabrack mountain. Rudimentary sheep shelters and old field walls visible in vicinity. N hut KE043-095001- is of more substantial construction but roof has collapsed. Blocked-up lintelled entrance is .95m high x .79 to .66m wide. D: 3.71m. H: 2.1m. T: 1.14 to 2.03m.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1016. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 4 August 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.