Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
An Com (bar. Uíbh Ráthach), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Com (bar. Uíbh Ráthach)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82949, -10.31850
- SMR number
- KE097-015----
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Shown on 4 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
On a slight terrace with extensive views W, overlooking St Finan's Bay, and E, overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay. A pair of poorly preserved and overgrown conjoined huts of roughly square plan. Some upright slabs form the base of the inner wall-face of the N hut (KE097-015----). D: 2.3m. H: .9m. An L-shaped drystone-built souterrain (KE097-015001-) opens off its W side. The lintelled opening is .3m high and .55m wide. The passage extends W for 1.6m then turns through a low creepway to S, where collapse impedes further progress. The S hut is poorly defined, its interior infilled with boulders. D: 3.7m x 3m. This may be the site Lynch noted as 'Gortnacaha' (1902b, 321).
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. 1209. 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.