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Hut site

Killelan East, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Killelan East, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killelan East
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.95680, -10.29927
SMR number
KE079-007002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In rough, upland pasture on the E slopes of Killelan, in the vicinity of numerous old field fences. Three sheepfolds overlie the foundations of a pair of circular conjoined huts of corbelled drystone construction. The larger hut KE079-007----, at W, measures 3.1m x 2.6m internally and its wall stands to a maximum height of 1.27m. A .5m wide entrance is located at SE, and a 3m long passage communicates with the smaller hut to E. Only the lower courses of the E hut (KE079-007002-) survive. It measures 2.1m in diameter internally.

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. 1308. 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.

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