Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Gortacreenteen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacreenteen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.84380, -9.43103
- SMR number
- KE103-058----
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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 grazing on bog, on an E-facing gentle slope, overlooking the valley of the Slaheny River. The remains of a roughly circular hut (diam. 6m N-S; 5.2m E-W) defined by the collapsed lower courses of a stone wall (T 0.6m; max. H 0.5m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. Rubble is scattered intermittently in the interior and larger boulder-type stones are visible along the NW arc. There is an entrance (Wth 1m) along the SE arc. Another hut site (KE103-059----) is c. 13m to the N.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 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.