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Hut site in Baile Mún

Hut site

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Mairi's bed and Altan's chamber still touch the wet rushy slope, though no door remains for either woman to enter. The collapsed stones hide the cross-wall that divided their lives, turning a shared home into two silent rooms. They argued about ownership until the rain erased the boundary, leaving only a round shadow where pride and love both collapsed.
Situated on wet rushy land in upland area on W facing slope of rising land. Poorly preserved remains of a sub-circular shaped hutsite (int. diam. 5.4m) defined by a low dry-stone wall (T 0.9m; H 0.2m) with much collapsed rubble which partially obscures the shape of the hut site. There are possible traces of an internal cross-wall although this is obscured by the collapsed stone. There is no evidence of any entrance into the hut site. A second hut site (DG090-009002-) is located 170m to the NW and both of these hut sites are located amongst a field system (DG090-009003-) which appears to be contemporaneous with the settlement sites. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010.

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