Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Laharan North, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laharan North
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96162, -10.28268
- SMR number
- KE079-009----
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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
On the E side of Killelan, in pasture sloping steeply to S. Cultivation ridges occur in the immediate vicinity. The poorly preserved remains of a subcircular hut, revetted internally with a basal row of uprights. The drystone-faced wall encloses a rubble core. Collapse extends toward S for a distance of 6m. D: 3m. A ruined annex abuts at NE; it may have originally been conjoined. D: 2.2m.
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. 1345. 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.