Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Killogrone, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killogrone
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91319, -10.17310
- SMR number
- KE080-051----
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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
Location within a forestry plantation on the E bank of an upper tributary of the Carhan river, which flows N from Lough Rehill down the steep slopes of Foilclogh. A corbelled drystone hut of roughly rectangular plan, with an entrance at E. D: 2.2m x 1.7m. Adjacent at S is a .5m wide entrance to a semi-subterranean drystone, lintelled chamber, 2m long E-W.
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. 1326. 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.