Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Caherlehillan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherlehillan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98947, -10.07736
- SMR number
- KE070-121----
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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
On top of a ridge, within a field system (KE070-120----). The remains of a heavily overgrown, circular hut site (3m x 2.9m) defined by a drystone wall (T 1m; H 0.35m) which has collapsed inwards. Outcropping rock is incorporated into the wall along the N and W arcs. (Harte 2002, 145, no. D203)
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.