Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Com Dhíneol Theas, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Com Dhíneol Theas
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.10343, -10.45245
- SMR number
- KE052-138002-
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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
Possible conjoined hut sites described by Cuppage (1986, 402, no. 1227) as follows; 'In rough rocky pastureland, on a W facing slope below the summit of the SW end of the Mount Eagle to Slea Head ridge. An oval, corbelled drystone foundation [KE052-138001-]. Possible remains of a conjoined structure at E, and less certain traces of a 3rd structure a little downslope to W'.
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.