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
- 52.01445, -10.02997
- SMR number
- KE071-100----
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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
Hut site identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as; 'In boggy upland pasture used for sheep grazing, there is a complex of hut sites at an elevation of between 250m and 260m on a ridge of the E slope of Beenmore. 2 of the hut sites are N of a tributary of the Behy river and the remainder are S of it. Coomnacronia Lake is c. 625m SSW and the hut complex N of the lake is c. 520m to SW. Drung Hill is to N. At NE, there are views down the valley beyond Curra Hill to Dingle Bay and at E, to Seefin Mountain. This poorly preserved drystone hut has an internal diameter of 2.5m with walls 0.75m thick and 0.5m high. There is no entrance evident. Rushes diminish the intervisibility between this hut and the hut site 6m to E'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe
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.