Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Rossard, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossard
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79157, -9.66387
- SMR number
- KE109-093003-
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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 SW-facing slope, at the foot of W-facing cliffs, immediately to the SE of Cummeenadillure Lough. The poorly preserved remains of an oval hut site (3m NE-SW; 1.8m NW-SE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.7m; H 0.4m) SE-N and by a scarp N-SE. The hut site is cut (D 0.8m) into the upslope at NE. Material from the collapsed wall along the SE-SW arc is scattered downslope to the SW. The interior is level. There is an entrance (Wth 0.45m) at W.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.