Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Baile Uí Shé, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Uí Shé
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.16438, -10.27612
- SMR number
- KE043-148----
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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
On W slopes of Ballysitteragh mountain. A pair of ruined huts, probably conjoined. S hut KE043-148---- is circular in plan. D: c. 4.25 to 4.87m. H: 1.3m. N hut KE043-148001- now represented by a large oval mound of stones with a central oval depression, measuring 3.93m N-S x .67m wide, which does not appear to indicate full extent of interior.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1111. 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.