Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Drombohilly Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombohilly Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.78951, -9.72932
- SMR number
- KE109-001031-
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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 pasture, on a NW-facing slope with outcropping rock, overlooking Kenmare Bay. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 5.6m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.3m) which is best preserved S-NE. Two contiguous stone (max. L 1.2m; H 0.25m; T 0.25m) slabs form the arc NE-E. A break at E may indicate an entrance. The NW portion of the interior is raised (H 0.9m) and the SE portion is cut (D 0.7m) into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. A relict wall from a network of field boundaries (KE109-001030-) is immediately to the E.
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.