Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Canburrin, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canburrin
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.90693, -10.16118
- SMR number
- KE089-001----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf on the upper N slopes of Beenduff, overlooking the head of the Carhan river valley. Four drystone corbelled huts, three subcircular and one rectangular in plan. Well-built, with their entrances generally facing E. Stone collapse surrounds each hut; two have collapsed internally. Shelf appears to have been revetted on its N side. (1) KE089-001---- D: 2.5m x 1.9m. H: .7m. T: 1m. (2) D: 2.4m x 1.6m. H: .5m. T: 1.2m. (3) D: 3m. H: 1m. T: 1m. (4) D: 3m x 1.3m. H: 1.2m. T: 1m.
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. 1181. 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.