Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Killelan West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killelan West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95425, -10.31355
- SMR number
- KE079-002002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
On open mountain terrain, in the vicinity of old field fences KE079-002002-, on the S slopes of Killelan overlooking Valencia Harbour. A pair of overgrown conjoined huts of corbelled drystone construction, on a stone-revetted terrace. Situated adjacent at E, a rectangular hut (KE079-002003-), probably later. The larger conjoined hut KE079-002---- at E is of circular plan and measures 4.6m x 4.5m in internal diameter. The entrance may be located at E, but the fill of stone collapse makes identification uncertain. The lintelled passage at W communicates with the smaller subcircular hut at W and measures .7m wide. Rubble infill blocks its W end.
The second hut KE079-002001- measures 5.8m x 3.6m internally. The rectangular hut, abutting the external face of larger conjoined hut at E, survives as an overgrown, stony bank with an entrance at S. D: 4.35m x 3.9m. A sheepfold is located against its S side.
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. 1311. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.