Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Coomacullen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coomacullen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sheepfold
- Coordinates
- 51.97215, -9.30202
- SMR number
- KE076-018001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, on undulating moorland in the valley of the Roughty River and within a network of relict field walls (KE076-018----). The remains of a circular hut (3.1m E-W; 2.4m N-S) defined by a partially grass-covered, collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.4m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. There is an entrance (Wth 0.6m) at SW.
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.