Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Bray, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88639, -10.41428
- SMR number
- KE087-024----
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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 huts and located about 20m SSE of KE087-023002-. A poorly preserved hut of almost square plan. The walls are of drystone masonry surmounding a basal row of upright slabs. A .8m wide entrance, flanked by a pair of uprights, is located at ENE. The interior is filled with stone collapse, and three upright slabs here may be the remains of a lamb shelter. D: 5.5m x 5.3m. H: 1.1m. T: 1.2m.
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. 1138. 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
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.