Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - vernacular house
Derrysallagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrysallagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.81455, -9.62361
- SMR number
- KE101-129----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In rough hill pasture, at the foot of a steep NW-facing slope overlooking Cummer Lough. Remains of rectangular structure (int. 5.9m N-S; 3.1m E-W) defined by partly collapsed well-built drystone walls (T c. 0.7m; H c. 1.7m). Doorway at centre of the W wall. Internal wall cupboard (Wth 0.5m; H 0.45m; D 0.45m) built of slabs at the E end of the S wall. Addition at the S end of the house (int. 3m E-W; 2m N-S) with internal dividing wall (long axis N-S). Traces of wide lazy beds in immediate vicinity.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.