Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Gortadirra, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortadirra
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.03302, -9.60706
- SMR number
- KE066-141001-
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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
In rough heather-clad mountain pasture, on a break of a steep NE-facing slope with views NE over Lough Leane. The remains of a rectangular hut site (3.2m NW-SE; 2.1m NE-SW) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.5m). A boulder is incorporated into the wall at the N corner. Rubble from the collapsed wall is obscured by ferns and is scattered along the perimeter both internally and externally. Two other hut sites (KE066-141002-, KE066-141003-) are c. 75m to the S.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.