Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Shronebirrane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shronebirrane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.74252, -9.80983
- SMR number
- KE108-055003-
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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 an enclosure (KE108-055004-). The remains of a D-shaped hut site (2.8m N-S) defined by a curving drystone wall (T c. 0.6m; H 0.4-1.1m) and by a straight N side (L 3.4m) which is formed by the N wall of the enclosure. The lower course stones in the wall protrude above the bog and are partly grass covered. Two large stones (max. H 1.15m; 0.8m x 0.4m) form most of the enclosing N wall. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.6m) at NE. The hut site is collapsed and poorly preserved and the surviving walls are roughly built. Another hut site (KE108-055002-) is c. 25m to the NE.
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.