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
- 51.91849, -9.71734
- SMR number
- KE083-023012-
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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 an enclosure (KE083-023001-) which is within a field system (KE083-023002-). The remains of an oval hut site (4m E-W; 3m N-S) defined by the lower courses of a drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.3m). Rushes grow in the interior and rubble is scattered along the perimeter externally. The remains of a stone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.2m) run W from the hut site as far as the wall of the enclosure.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.