Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Glanleam, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanleam
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.92963, -10.32380
- SMR number
- KE079-108----
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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
Not marked on the OS maps, this poorly preserved enclosure is located in rough, rocky pasture that slopesdown to Fort Point, Valencia Island. Its gapped enclosing element defines a subcircular area measuring 30m N-S x 35m E-W. The overgrown drystone wall survives to a maximum external height of 1.2m at E and has an average basal width of 2.3m. A number of walls converge at SW. Mitchell records the rectangular foundations of a hut (KE079-108001-) a second circular enclosure (KE079-108002-) and a small walled area at the location (1989, 28). Dense vegetation prevented positive identification of these features.
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. 751. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.