Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Ballycrystal,boladurragh, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycrystal,boladurragh
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61749, -6.73262
- SMR number
- WX009-021----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Sub-circular site located immediately east of the Boladurragh/ Ballycrystal townland boundary on the Blackrock ridgeline. Hut is 5m in external diameter and 3m in internal diameter. The walls survive to a height of 1m. There is no evidence for the roofing style used. Located in an area with physical evidence for large scale turf cutting. A trackway runs east-west to the north of the site. Folklore also attests to the use of the mountain for turf cutting suggesting that this hut may have acted as either a weather shelter or a store house (Ó Murchú 2016).
References
Ó Murchú, S. 2016 The Blackstairs Mountains, south east Ireland: investigating the archaeological potential of an understudied upland landscape. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.