Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Cool East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cool East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91146, -10.35915
- SMR number
- KE078-009009-
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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
Located in the NE quadrant of ecclesiastical enclosure KE078-009004-, are the foundations of a roughly square building. Some external and internal wall facing survives and the structure measures c. 4.4m N-S x 4.2m E-W internally, with walls up to .95m thick. An entrance gap, 1.55m wide, occurs midway along the W wall and within the N wall are the remains of a possible wall-niche. About 1m outside the S wall is a parallel revetment, 4.7m long and about .7m high, formed of large slab set on edge.
The above description is derived from O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. (compilers) 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University press. (1996), no. 940. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 11 June 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.