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
- 51.91991, -9.71905
- SMR number
- KE083-023017-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In rough hill grazing, on a peaty terrace on the S-facing slopes of Knockleama and within a field system (KE083-023002-). The remains of a D-shaped hut site (3.1m N-S) defined by a jumbled stone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.4m) with a straight N side (L 3.5m). Field walls abut the hut site at the W and E. There is an enclosure (KE083-023016-) c. 38m to the E.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.