What is recorded here

Half-buried in the slope above Trabeg, the rectangular hut still stands seventy centimetres tall, its two-metre-thick walls holding the shape of a room that stopped being a room only recently in the life of the hill. The earthen bank and ditch around it suggest a household that valued privacy or protection, while the cultivation ridges filling the rest of the circle prove the same ground was also worked for food. Perhaps one person lived beside the stones and another trod the soil until rain and years erased the difference.

Well-preserved rath KE053-052---- is situated on a N facing slope below Carrigavinnaun, on the E side of the Trabeg inlet. The circular interior contains the remains of at least 1 hut and is enclosed by a single earthen bank and fosse. The stone hut KE053-052001- in the interior is roughly rectangular in plan and measures c. 7.5m x 8.5m internally. The collapsed walls stand to a maximum height of .7m and are c. 2m wide. The 9m long stretch of ruined walling which lies 5.5m to E of the hut may be part of a 2nd structure. The remainder of the interior is occupied by cultivation ridges. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 483. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

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