Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Fán, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fán
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.11066, -10.41803
- SMR number
- KE052-085003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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 SE slopes of Mount Eagle. Foundations of a pair of conjoined structures, with a communicating passage and an entrance to the exterior from the S structure which is circular in plan. The N structure is probably D-shaped in plan. D: 3.5m and 1.7 x 1.7m. H: 1m. Directly SE of the S structure are the possible remains of a 3rd structure c. 2.25m in diameter.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1263. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 5 August 2013
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.