What is recorded here

Five metres across in 1997, the hut has surrendered a metre to time and perhaps to the hungry fence line beside it. Large slabs still mark the east, south and west arcs, but the north has collapsed into a low mound where gorse now pushes through like a green claim on forgotten ground. A hundred metres away, a standing stone, a boulder burial and a burnt mound wait in the same pasture, suggesting this slope served more than one human need. The hut itself has become a rumour, its shape softened by grass, stone theft and the slow patience of mountains.

In a pasture field, on the lower N-facing slopes of Tooreennamna Mountain. The remains of a hut site (c. 4.2m E-W; 3.9m N-S) defined by an arc of a collapsed wall (T 0.6m; H 0.6m) E-NW which consists of large stones. Some stones may have been moved to the field fence to the N. The hut site is partially obscured by gorse and bushes. When initially recorded in 1997, the hut site was more intact and measured 5m in diameter. It was then defined by well-set large slabs along the E, S and W arcs and by a mound of earth and stone on the N arc. There is a standing stone (CO102-040001-), a boulder-burial (CO102-040002-) and a burnt mound (CO102-040004-) located c. 100m to the WSW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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