What is recorded here
In hill pasture, on a SW-facing slope to the N of Carran Mountain. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 2.4m) defined by a bank (Wth 0.6m; H c. 0.3m) of peat and stones. The hut site abuts the S face of a relict field boundary (KE094-026007-). Another hut site (KE094-026011-) is 2m to the E. Two other hut sites (KE094-026005, KE094-026010-) are c. 35m to the WSW.
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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