What is recorded here

Two conjoined circular huts in Baile Uí Shé, County Kerry, were built with corbelled drystone roofs and a narrow communicating passage before sheep-folds consumed part of the structure. The surviving doorway, passage and small wall niches suggest a compact domestic or working place where people moved between enclosed rooms rather than a single open shelter. The huts may have served herding, storage or seasonal residence on the Dingle Peninsula, but the loss of one chamber to later farm use leaves that purpose in shadow.

A pair of conjoined circular corbelled drystone huts now partly destroyed and incorporated into a large complex sheep-fold. The communicating lintelled passage is .45m wide, .73m high and 1.5m long, and the lintelled doorway to the exterior, at the E side of the SW hut KE043-074----, is .82m wide and .72m high but now blocked. Each hut has a single small wall niche. D: 3.5m and at least 3.8m. H: 1.55m. T: 1.1 to 1.3m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1119. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

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