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Hut site in Cool

Hut site

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Three conjoined huts sit inside one circular bank on the east side of Corrin Hill, close enough that a person could touch two of them and still have room to breathe. The northern hut measures about 3.5m across, with a grass-grown stone wall rising 75cm inside but barely 10cm outside, as if the hill itself had swallowed most of the making. The entrance gap faces east-northeast, vague enough that wind, not choice, may have shaped it. These are not grand raths; they are small, crowded, human-sized, and they belong to a group of four pressed together on one slope.
KE036-076---- is one of a group of 4 raths situated in close proximity to one another on the E side of Corrin Hill. It lies c. 75m from KE036-077---- and c. 50m from KE036-075----. The circular interior, contains 3 conjoined huts. (2) (KE036-076002-) The northernmost hut measures c. 3.5m in diameter internally and the enclosing bank of grass-grown stones is up to .75m high internally but no more than .1m high externally. The ill-defined entrance gap lies to ENE. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 367. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

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