Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Meall Na Mbreac, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meall Na Mbreac
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.92281, -9.96826
- SMR number
- KE081-049----
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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 rough hill grazing on bog on a W-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Inny River. A circular hut site (7.6m N-S; 7.5m E-W) defined by the remains of a stone wall (T 1m; H 0.5m), protruding above the surface of bog and displaying traces of an inner and outer row of contiguous slabs with an infill of rubble. A turf stand was built on part of the hut site, causing some damage to its walls. Rushes obscure the rubble which is scattered in the interior. Field boundaries (KE081-050----) are c. 35m to the NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.