Hut site in Baile Mór Thiar — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

An Dúinín, the small fortress, still holds its shape on Ballymore Point where the sea took the west wall and left the east behind. A rectangular hut, a later cliff wall, and a drowned D-shaped chamber mark the edge of Ventry Harbour, while a quarry scar lies beside them like a wound made for building. The name and remaining banks suggest more than a passing camp, perhaps a watched harbour entrance where people lived small and close to the water.

KE052-289----; Ballymore Point, a fairly level NE-SW running promontory, marks the E side of the entrance to Ventry Harbour. Abutting the bank at its SE end is a rectangular hut-site, 3 x 4.5m, with an enclosing bank, .5m high. A later wall with a slight internal fosse skirts the edge of the cliff isolating 2 smaller promontories to SW and S. At the W edge of the latter is a D-shaped enclosure measuring 2.2m x 2m with banks less than .3m high; the W side has fallen into the sea. This is probably a hut-site. A larger depression to E of the latter seems to result from quarrying, perhaps for material for the later walls. Although the defences are very slight, the presence of hut-sites, and the local name for the site, An Dúinín (An Seabhac 1939, 49), suggest it is a promontory fort. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 264. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

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