Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Killelan West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killelan West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95347, -10.31369
- SMR number
- KE079-004----
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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
Downhill from KE079-003---- and adjacent to an old field wall. The collapsed foundations of a circular, corbelled drystone hut, situated on an artificial terrace. A lintelled niche occurs in the inner wall-face at NW and the entrance is obscured beneath rubble infill. D: 4.3m x 3.5m.
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. 1313. 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.