Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Reencaheragh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reencaheragh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88227, -10.39544
- SMR number
- KE087-104----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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
Hut site described in 2003 as follows; ‘A broad west-facing flat, level headland is cut off by an earthen field bank and external fosse. From the air a circular area, possibly the site of a hut foundation can be seen immediately northwest of the natural swallow hole. This is the only indication that the headland may have been occupied but the feature could not be found at ground level. The area is one of fertile cleared and drained pasture, with several nearby headlands defended with substantial earthworks’ (Casey 2003, 34, no. K)
References
Casey, M. 2003 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.