Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Cores, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cores
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.97016, -9.49950
- SMR number
- KE074-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In rough hill pasture, nestled in a valley, on the W-facing slope of Mangerton Mountain and within Killarney National Park. The remains of a circular hut (3.8m NW-SE; 3.6m NE-SW) defined by a drystone wall (T 1m; H 0.7m). There is an entrance (Wth 0.8m) at W. The hut is covered in heather.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.