Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Caol An Phréacháin Thoir, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caol An Phréacháin Thoir
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sheepfold
- Coordinates
- 51.92952, -10.08177
- SMR number
- KE080-042----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In poor boggy pasture on the lower S slopes of Caunoge, immediately E of Kealafreaghane river. A circular corbelled drystone hut with an entrance and threshold slab at NE. A window at E is .3m wide and .3m high. D: 3.35m. H: 1.45m. T: 1m.
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. 1300. 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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.