Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knockaneyouloo, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaneyouloo
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.00446, -10.07635
- SMR number
- KE070-010----
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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
A group of huts on the W slopes of Been Hill.
(1) KE070-010----; A pear-shaped, corbelled hut with a lintelled passage entrance, .7m wide and 1.75m long. Two wall-niches in the interior. A stone-lined platform abuts the hut externally at W. D: 2.4m x 1.7m. H: 1.25m. T: 1.3m.
(2) KE070-010001-; A possible pair of conjoined circular hut sites obscured by the platform and a later sheepfold. Average diameter, 2.8m.
(3) KE070-010002-; Foundations of rectangular hut incorporating large boulders. D: 3.2m x 2.2m. H: .8m. T: 1.9m.
(4) KE070-010003-; Circular hut formed of closely set uprights in S sector. One large upright at NW may mark entrance. D: 3m x 2.1m. H: .75m. T: .8m.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1344. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.