What is recorded here
In rough hill pasture, on a small terrace, on the S-facing slope of Mangerton Mountain. The remains of an oval hut site (6m E-W; 2.6m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.8m; H 0.5m). There is a break in the wall at NE. Another hut site (KE084-040007-) adjoins this hut site to the W. Conjoined hut sites (KE084-040002-, KE084-040006-) are 24m to the NE.
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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