Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballahacommane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballahacommane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05843, -9.43039
- SMR number
- KE067-119013-
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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 a heavily overgrown area of rough pasture, on the S-facing slopes of a NW-SE ridge, with views S to Mangerton Mountain. The remains of a roughly circular hut (diam. 2m) defined by a partially collapsed drystone wall (T 0.8m; H 1m). The entrance (Wth 1m) is at SE. A cairn (KE067-119011-) is c. 2m to the E and another hut site (KE067-119014-) is c. 12m to the SSE. (O'Donnell 2001; O'Donnell 2003)
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.