Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Booley hut
Knocknadroose, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknadroose
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04870, -6.48076
- SMR number
- WI016-015----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aalen (1963, 189) describes booley huts in the townland of Knocknadroose as particularly good examples comprising loose granite boulders in a variety of shapes and sizes (usually rectangular but sometimes round and oval). They appear to have been located in the area of forestry plantation to the N of 'Carricknagross graveyard' (WI016-014001-). A booley site recorded by Con Costelloe in this location (pers. comm. Barry Dalby) may be the same site as that recorded by Aalen. Several hut sites also visible at this location on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken July 2013.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on information provided by Barry Dalby
Date of revised upload: 22 March 2017
References
Aalen, F.H.A. 1963 A note on transhumance in the Wicklow mountains. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 93, 189-90.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.