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
- Sheepfold
- Coordinates
- 51.95242, -10.30761
- SMR number
- KE079-005----
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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
Close to the cliff-edge W of Coosbrista, on the S slopes of Killelan mountain. In rough pasture, a pair of conjoined huts of corbelled drystone construction.
The larger E hut KE079-005---- is subcircular in plan and measures 5.1m x 4.5m internally. Its wall stands to a maximum internal height of 1m and varies from 1.6m to 3.1m thick. Three lintelled drystone chambers, which may be secondary, occur in the N sector of the wall. The lintelled entrance at E measures .6m high, and is .8m wide and 3.2m long. A double lintel occurs on its inner side, the uppermost forming the base of a small wall-niche. The lintelled passage at W, communicating with the W hut, measures .65m high, .8m wide and 2.5m long. The double lintel at its E end also functions as a wall-niche. The W hut is of circular plan and measures 4m x 3.5m internally. Its wall stands to a maximum internal height of .65m and averages 1.5m thick. There is some evidence for an offset at W. Its interior has been modified for use as a sheepfold. Stone debris fills the interior of both huts.
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. 1314. 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.