What is recorded here
Hut site in Clooneen (tireragh By.) is a hut site in Clooneen (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a 4m square on a slight slope, 5m south-southeast of a larger rath bank. A low earth and stone wall, 1.4m wide at the base and 0.4m high inside, encloses the area. The wall has a 1m gap at the south for an entrance, while a shallow inward scarp replaces the missing wall on the northwest side.
Situated on slight SSE-facing slope in pasture, 5m to SSE of external base of bank enclosing a rath (SL011-090001-). Square area (4m E-W; 4m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth base 1.4m; int. H 0.4m). From NW-SSE the bank is absent and the edge of the site is defined by an inward facing scarp (H 0.2m). A break (Wth 1m) in the bank at S marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Mark Keegan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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