Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Letter West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letter West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02290, -10.02681
- SMR number
- KE071-074----
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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
A cluster of hut sites identified and described by John Loesberg as; 'On southern flank of Drung Hill. Cluster of small huts, walls & possible pens/sheepfolds. Oval shaped, dry-stone walled hut c. 4.4 x 3.3m towards the back of the hut a division/small wall is projected . The entrance is next to two large sub-rectangular slabs of stone laid at an angle and part of a wall leading to the hut and carrying on past it'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by John Loesberg
Date of upload: 7 October 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.