Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Inis Mhic Aoibhleáin, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Mhic Aoibhleáin
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.04356, -10.60746
- SMR number
- KE061-006016-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Inishvickillane, the southernmost of the Blasket islands, lies 7 miles SW of Slea Head and 9 miles from the nearest embarkation point at Dunquin pier. The island has an area of 199 acres and the Early Christian monastic settlement KE061-006---- lies at the SE end of the island, on the E slopes of a rocky buff which rises prominently above the remainder of the island.
(11) (KE061-006016-) A roughly oval field abuts the S side of the rocky crag that lies c. 100m SW of the monastery. The S wall of this incorporates the foundation of a circular hut measuring 3.2m in diameter internally. The wall is reduced to an earth and stone bank measuring 1.2 to 1.75m in thickness and up to .75m in height.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 845. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 8 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.