Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knocknagalty, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagalty
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35151, -8.19867
- SMR number
- LI058-027----
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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
Hut site located immediately N on floodplain of Glounreagh Monabrack Stream which marks townland boundary with Carrigeen Mountain. Hut-site (LI058-025----) 50m to ENE, cluster of 5 hut sites (LI058-026----) 100m to ESE. Listed as Knocknagalty 3 (Costello 2016, 305) and described as a small hut site aligned NW-SE consisting of a sub-rectangular shaped area (ext. dims. 4.2m x 2.5m; int. dims. 3m x 1m) enclosed by a low wall (avg. H. 0.2m; avg. Wth 0.6m) constructed with earth and some large stones, entrance at SE looking downstream (Costello 2020, Fig. 5.7). Built up against bluff which rises to the E and NE.
See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello
Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello
Date of upload: 25 August 2020
References
Costello, E. 2020 Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900. Woodbridge. Boydell.
Costello, E. 2016 Upland transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1550-1900 AD. Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.
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