What is recorded here
In rough mountain pasture, on a terrace on the N-facing slope of Carran Mountain. The ruins of a D-shaped hut site (3m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.5m) with a straight W side (L 4.4m N-S). The W side of the hut site abuts a collapsed N-S relict field wall (KE094-066001-) immediately to the W.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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