Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Gortderrig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortderrig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.03292, -9.26925
- SMR number
- KE068-172----
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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
'This impressive circular drystone hut is 9m in maximum diamater, the walls surviving to a maximum height of 1.5m high, and averaging 1m wide. An internal dividing wall bisects the interior from north to south. A 1.2m wide entrance occurs at southeast. This hut is very well made, and does not appear to have been corbelled.'
The above description was published in F. Coyne, 'Islands in the clouds: an upland archaeological study on Mount Brandon and the Paps, Co. Kerry.' (Kerry Co. Council in association with Aegis Archaeology, 2006).
Date of upload: 15 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.