Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Kelshabeg, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kelshabeg
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.93733, -6.59709
- SMR number
- WI027-084----
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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
On the western slope of Carrig Mountain, on the crest of an E-W ridge from which the ground slopes down to S, W and N. A circular area (int. diam. 3.6m E–W; 3.5m N-S; ext. diam. 6.6m N–S; 6.3m E–W) defined by a low grass-covered spread of fairly large stones (int. H 0.1m at S; 0.3m at N (upslope); ext. H 0.2m at N; 0.4m at S). The monument is in an unplanted area of forestry.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.