Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Inchee West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchee West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sheepfold
- Coordinates
- 51.78791, -10.14099
- SMR number
- KE106-019----
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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 boggy pasture, high on the NE slopes of Farraniaragh mountain, at the head of a tributary of the Finglas river. The foundations of a circular drystone hut beneath a collapsed sheepfold. A basal row of uprights, averaging 1m high, flank its inner wall-face. D: 3.1m x 2.6m. T: 1.6m.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1296. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.