Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Bray, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sheepfold
- Coordinates
- 51.88713, -10.41586
- SMR number
- KE087-021----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of a group of five drystone buildings on the well-drained SE facing slopes of Bray Head, Valencia Island, overlooking the entrance to Portmagee Channel. Traces of broad cultivation ridges and field boundaries occur in the vicinity of the buildings and extend outwards over a wider area. The ridges curve to avoid some of the buildings. A possible corn-drying kiln (KE087-032----) is located about 170m SE of the group and may be related to it.
The most northerly of the group is a circular hut of corbelled drystone construction. Its E half is largely denuded and its interior is littered with collapsed stone. Wall-niche in the interior at W. D: 5.1m N-S. H: 1.1m. T: 1.8m. A 3.3m stretch of a field wall is located 7m SSW of the hut. This may be the second hut referred to by Henry (1957, 95).
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1135. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.