Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Kealduff Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kealduff Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghauns
- Coordinates
- 52.01186, -10.00561
- SMR number
- KE071-066002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough grazing on the lower NE-facing slopes of Coomreagh Mountain. The remains of a roughly circular hut site (3.4m N-S; 2.9m E-W) defined by a partially collapsed, drystone wall (T 1.1m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.1m). Internally, the lower courses consist of mainly large boulder-type stones and the remaining upper courses consist of smaller stones, parts of which show signs of rebuilding. Much of the external portion of the wall has collapsed outwards and is strewn along the perimeter. At E, the damaged entrance (Wth 0.75m) is defined by a slab (L 1.1m) on its N side and it faces another hut site (KE071-066001-) c. 2m to the SSW.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.