Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Fán, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fán
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.10270, -10.41848
- SMR number
- KE052-255002-
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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
On lower S slopes of Mount Eagle, abutting the E side of a N-S field wall. A pair of conjoined huts of corbelled drystone construction, now almost completely obscured by field clearance debris. Du Noyer (1858, 8-9) described them as circular and D-shaped in plan, with a lintelled communicating passage, and an entrance to the exterior from the circular hut. D: c. 5.5m and c. 5.5 x 4.26m. Macalister (1899, 239-40) noted 3 huts at the site.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1257. 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.