Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballynahunt,glanteenassig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahunt,glanteenassig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.19446, -10.03908
- SMR number
- KE045-001----
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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
Cuchullin's House/Tigh Chúchulainn: The easternmost of 2 hill-top cairns which stand c. 1.5km apart on the summit of the E-W ridge which separates Lough Anscaul and the Anascaul valley, on the S side of the Dingle Peninsula, from Glanteenassig on the N side. The cairn is c. 12m in diameter and c. 2m high and a drystone retaining wall is preserved, to a height of c. 1.25m, around the W half of the perimeter. A series of sheep shelters and folds have been constructed around the base using stones from the cairn. Material from the cairn was also probably used to construct the OS trigonometrical station on its summit.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 217. 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
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.