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
- 51.90704, -10.16031
- SMR number
- KE089-002----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
About 70m E of KE089-001---- is an enclosed cluster of three huts, a mound of stone collapse - possibly a fourth hut - and an arc of stone walling erected as a sheepfold.
(1) KE089-002----; An oval hut of corbelled drystone construction with a lintelled wall-niche in the interior at N. A collapsed entrance passage, .7m wide, at SW. D: 1.5m x 1.25m. H: 1m. T: 1.2m.
(2) KE089-002001-; Subrectangular hut adjacent at S. Inner wall-face flanked with a basal row of uprights. D: 2m x 1.3m. W: .7m.
(3) KE089-002002-; Rough foundations of a rectangular structure E of (2). D: 4.5m x 2.6m.
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. 1182. 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.