Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Inchincoosh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchincoosh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.94028, -9.35714
- SMR number
- KE085-052----
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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 grazing. The remains of an oval hut site (8m E-W; 7m N-S) defined by a partially collapsed drystone wall (max. H 1m), abutting outcropping rock at S. There is no apparent entrance. Two other hut sites (KE085-050----, KE085-051----) lie c. 25m to the E and c. 40m to the E, respectively. (pers. comm. A. Quinn, Tobar Archaeological Services)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.