What is recorded here

Three crude red sandstone foundations cling to a narrow scarp above the Finglas River, their eastern walls buried under piled stones to resist the steep slope. The smallest circle measures two metres across while the largest stretches nearly five metres, yet none shows an entrance or clear wall courses. They sit exposed on the glen's western edge, watching the water below but blocked from the sides by rising rock. Whoever built them chose a tight, dangerous ledge where the earth itself helped hold the walls against the sky.

'Located on the steeply sloping western side of Scotia’s Glen, overlooking the Finglas River, this group of three stone hut sites provide good views down the glen to the south and to the north, however views to the east and west are limited by the stttep sides of the glen. The sites are located on a narrow scarp and all three remain only as crude foundations built of large stones of red sandstone, with the down-slope (eastern) side of each hut being heavily buttressed by stones piled in against the slope of the ground. The more northerly hut [038-128----] is circular, 2.4m in internal diameter, the stone wall remaining to a height of 0.42n and a width of 0.7m. There are no clear wall courses and no evidence for an entrance. The middle hut [KE038-129----] is the smallest, being only 2m in internal diameter, the wall remaining to a height of 0.30m and a width of 0.6m. The more southerly hut [KE038-130----] is sub-rectangular measuring 4.8m N-S and 2.4m E-W, built in the same fashion as the two circular examples, the wall remaining to a height of 0.45m and a width of 0.72m. Again no entrance is visible' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 22 June 2012

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