Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Latrine
Sceilg Mhichíl, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77238, -10.53876
- SMR number
- KE104A001051-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Latrine described in 1996 as follows; 'The drystone foundations of this subcircular structure measuring 0.9m x 0.8m internally, are located just outside the N end of the upper terrace [KE104A001161-]. An entrance gap faces onto the terrace. A vertically disposed slab crosses the interior of the structure, forming the top of a shaft which debouches into a gully below' (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 286, no. 948 (16)).
See attached plan of latrine located to N of small oratory (KE104A001040-), taken from Bourke, Hayden and Lynch 2011, 44.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 9 March 2022
References
Bourke, E., Hayden, A. and Lynch, A. 2011 Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry: the monastery and South Peak. Archaeological stratigraphic report: excavations 1986–2010 (E338; 90E34; 93E195). Dept. of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Dublin.
O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. 1996 The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry. Cork University press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.