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Hut site

Coarha More, County Kerry, Ireland

The record

Townland
Coarha More
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.90732, -10.38747
SMR number
KE087-077----

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David 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

Within an extensive old field system, on the N side of an escarpment and E of a modern trackway which runs through Emlagh Bog, Valencia Island. An oval-shaped hut with a poorly defined annex at E, built into the N face of the scarp. D: 3.4m x 2.8m. The annex measures 3.8m x 2.7m in internal dimensions. A number of small subrectangular fields surround the hut and incorporate at least two animal shelters. Mitchell considers this complex to be of Early Medieval date (1989, 66-7).

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. 1202. 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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