Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Glanrastel, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanrastel
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.74863, -9.70480
- SMR number
- KE109-051002-
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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 break at the foot of a steep N-facing slope, close to the S bank of the Glanrastel River. The remains of an oval hut site (3m E-W; 2.1m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (T c. 0.6m; H 0.4m) which is built up (H 0.2m) externally at N and cut (D 0.2m) into the upslope at S. Rubble from the collapsed upper courses is scattered along the perimeter and along the downslope to the N. An arc of stones (H 0.4m), extending SE-SW, is situated 1m S of the hut site. Two other hut sites (KE109-051001-, KE109-051003-) lie 20m to the S and 27m to the W, respectively.
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.