Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Mangerton, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mangerton
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.94777, -9.48118
- SMR number
- KE084-043003-
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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 pasture, on a terrace, near the S bank of the Owbaun River, on the SW-facing slope of Mangerton Mountain. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 2m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.4m). The E portion of the interior is cut (D 0.6m) into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. The inner face of the wall along the S arc is defined by upright stones, set on edge longitudinally. The wall is well preserved W-NW. A relict wall from a network of field boundaries (KE084-043004-) passes immediately N of this hut site. Another hut site (KE084-043002-) is 26m to the N. Two conjoined hut sites (KE084-043001-, KE084-043005-) are 43m to the N.
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
- Hut siteunder 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.