Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Releagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Releagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79562, -9.57945
- SMR number
- KE102-088001-
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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
On the crest of a SE-sloping ridge and within a network of relict field boundaries (KE102-088011-). Described in 2000 as the remains of an oval hut site (4.4m E-W; 2.9m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (T 0.85m; H 0.4m). The partially grass-covered lower courses of the wall protruded above the surface of the shallow bog. There was an entrance break at SE. Rubble was strewn along the perimeter of the hut site. On a subsequent inspection in 2007 there were no visible remains of this hut site, the land having been reclaimed and reseeded.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.