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
- 51.79658, -9.58038
- SMR number
- KE102-088006-
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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 a hollow and within a network of relict field boundaries (KE102-088011-). Described in 2000 as the remains of a roughly circular hut site (2.5m N-S; 2.1m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.5m). Large lower course stones protruded above the surface of the shallow bog and were obscured by rubble. The S portion of the interior was raised slightly and the N portion was cut into the upslope to create a level interior. 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.