Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Tinnies Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tinnies Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91399, -10.35498
- SMR number
- KE078-023----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in pasture on the lower SW slopes of Geokaun, Valencia Island, midway between a rath (KE078-010001-) and a souterrain (KE078-011----). The ruined remains of a subcircular hut, described by O'Connell in 1937 as an 'earth and stone ring with grave sites' (OPW). A lintelled drystone wall chamber in the inner wall-face at N measures .25m high, .4m wide and at least 1m deep. D: 6.3m x 4.4m. Small amorphous mounds and depressions directly S of hut.
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. 1404. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 64/1938).
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.