Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Coomanaspig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coomanaspig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85867, -10.37991
- SMR number
- KE087-093----
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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
In rough hill grazing close to the edge of a high W-facing cliff with views of Valencia Island and Sceilg Mhichíl. A D-shaped hut site (3.2m N-S) with a straight S side (L 4.8m) defined by the vertical face of outcropping rock aligned E-W and elsewhere by a stone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.2-0.7m) displaying traces of an inner row of contiguous slabs, against which are the partially obscured remains of a collapsed stone wall. Two large parallel slabs at W appear to have broken off from the rock-face. A break (Wth 0.7m) beside the rock-face at E may have been the entrance. There is another hut site (KE087-092----) c. 30m to the SW.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.