Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Fehanagh, County Kerry, Ireland
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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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 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.