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Hut site in Commons (burren By.)

Hut site

What is recorded here

Eleven feet of grassed wall still circle a forgotten room on the Clare plateau, while a cairn watches from twenty-six metres east. The flat ground abuts a natural terrace, suggesting people chose the edge where the land rises rather than burying themselves in open waste. Maybe they sat inside when rain struck the plateau or kept watch over the field system below. The stones have surrendered their sharp edges to grass, but the shape remains clear enough to prove the edge was once valuable.
In a flat area abutting a natural NE-SW terrace on the lower SE slopes of a broad plateau that largely forms part of an extensive field system (CL009-084001-). A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 11m) defined by a grassed-over wall visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). A cairn (CL010-253----) lies c. 26m to the E on the same terrace. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 August 2023

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