Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Cummeenshrule, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeenshrule
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79773, -9.47758
- SMR number
- KE103-060----
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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 steep hill grazing, on the N side of the Priest’s Leap, on a W facing valley containing a tributary of the Coomeelan Stream. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. c. 3m) defined by lower courses of a drystone wall (T 0.9m; H 0.3m) with entrance (Wth 0.6m) at NW. The S half of the hut is built on a low ridge of exposed bedrock. A small stream runs immediately to the W while the main river is further to the E. To the N and W the land rises steeply with terraces and rock faces. Immediately to the SW there is a small, roughly rectangular and partially built up area which could have been used for corralling livestock or for cultivation. Further to the SW and also to the N are two dry stone walls (KE103-060001-) built across natural terraces.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Tony Miller
Date of upload: 21 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.