What is recorded here

Hut site in Alternan Park is a hut site in Alternan Park, County Sligo, Ireland. A rectangular area measuring 5.3m NE-SW and 3.3m NW-SE is defined by a barely discernible bank of earth and stone, with a 0.4-0.5m gap separating it from an outer bank that encloses three sides. The remains survive in a very low profile within coastal pasture near the Ballymeeny River.

In an expanse of gently undulating coastal pasture, bordered c. 40m to E of the hut site by the deep-sided ravine of the Ballymeeny River. Rectangular area (5.3m NE–SW; 3.3m NW–SE) defined on the perimeter by a barely discernible rise or bank of earth and stone, with the NE side particularly difficult to trace. The interior is not noticeably raised relative to exterior ground level. A gap of 0.4-0.5m intervenes on the SE, SW, and NW sides between the bank/wall of the hut site and an outer bank/wall, which encloses the hut on these sides and appears to be part of a wider system of field boundaries (SL011-142----), remnants of which can still be traced extending to SE and ESE from the hut site. All of these remains have been levelled in the past and survive in a very low profile, barely discernible state. There is another hut site (SL011-122----) c. 50m to NE, a rath (SL011-081001-) c. 100m to SW, and a holy well (SL011-057----) c. 120m to NNE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 July 2013

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