What is recorded here

Ballynamought is a steep rocky gully partially closed by curving stone walls, holding the remains of a sub-circular hut dug into the upslope. The western wall runs fourteen metres between rock faces while the eastern wall curves nineteen metres across the lower end, creating a narrow enclosed space where the hut still sits with a possible one-metre entrance on its west side. Someone shaped that rough gully into a lived place, cutting a small room into the hill and blocking the exit with stone.

The enclosure is formed by partially closing off the eastern end of a steep rocky gully. At the W end a 14m length of walling, max. H.0.8m and W. 0.4m, runs N-S between steep rock faces. At the E end a 19m length of curving wall, max1m H, partially encloses the lower, open end of the gully. Within this E end there are the remains of a sub-circular hut site which is partially dug into the up-slope. It has internal measurements of c.5m E-W, c.4m N-S with max H of c.0.8m and Wth of c.0.8m. There is a possible entrance, 1m wide, at the W side. Compiled by: Tony Miller Date of upload/revision: 3 March 2022

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