Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Scarteen (dunkerron South By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scarteen (dunkerron South By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91868, -9.71873
- SMR number
- KE083-023006-
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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
Within a field system (KE083-023002-). The remains of a circular, stone-built hut site (diam. c. 7m) defined by roughly built walls (T 0.5m; H 0.6m) which are two to three courses high. The interior is obscured by a dense growth of rushes. There is another hut site (KE083-023032-) c. 25m to the SE. (SMR file)
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.