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
- 51.91439, -10.37844
- SMR number
- KE078-014002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 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 c. 33m NW of the entrance is a conjoined pair of huts of drystone construction, now heavily overgrown. Access to the second hut was through a 2.1m long communicating passage, now collapsed. The internal diameter of this hut is 3.7m. The interiors of both huts are largely filled with collapse, and both appear to be of semi-subterranean construction.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 445. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.