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Hut site

Carrigeen Mountain, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Carrigeen Mountain, County Limerick, 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
Carrigeen Mountain
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.34494, -8.21466
SMR number
LI058-028----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Hut-site aligned E-W built into steep facing W slope, on mountain pasture with commanding views down the valley. Blackrock River 115m to E and pathway depicted on OSi 6-inch maps 30m to W. Listed as Carrigeen Mountain 1 (Costello 2016, 303-4). Present remains consist of a small, sub-rectangular shaped area (ext. dims. 4.5m x 3m; int. dims. 3.3m x 1.6m) enclosed by a coursed earth and stone wall (avg. int. H 0.8m; avg. T 0.9m) with rounded corners at W end. Blocked entrance at S. Cultivation ridges associated with post-1700 phase of permanent settlement visible to S, E and N. Could be interpreted as a pre-existing booley hut, similar to Boolakennedy 2 (TS080-018----) (Costello 2016, 94-95; Costello 2020, 121).

See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello

Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello

Date of upload: 25 August 2020

References

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.

Costello, E. 2020 Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900. Woodbridge. Boydell.

Costello, E. 2016 Seasonal settlement and the interpretation of upland archaeology in the Galtee Mountains, Ireland. Landscape History 37(1), 87-98.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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