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Hut site

Fehanagh, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Fehanagh, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Fehanagh
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.75616, -9.73622
SMR number
KE109-055004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating rough hill pasture, on the NE-facing slope of Knockowen Mountain. The remains of an oval hut site (2.9m NE-SW; 2m SE-NW) defined by the lower courses of a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.5m) that is covered in moss and grass. Rubble from the collapsed upper courses is scattered along the perimeter, internally. There is an entrance (Wth 0.9m) at SW. A short arc of a drystone wall, which curves to the NW, abuts the N wall externally. The function of this arc is unclear. A large boulder abuts the NE wall externally. There is a hut site (KE109-055002-) immediately to the NW and another two hut sites (KE109-055003-, KE109-05505-) are located 2m to the W and 30m to the E, 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.

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