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Hut site in Garranes North

Hut site
Hut site in Garranes North
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Mystery Hut, Garranes North: A circular stone chamber with a hidden northern compartment, built on a sunny terrace above Castledonovan. The wall still stands half a metre high among heather and gorse, though time has knocked back most of it. The chamber may have stored tools, sheltered a herder, or marked a boundary nobody remembers.
In rough heather and gorse-covered hill grazing, on a terrace on a S-facing slope overlooking Castledonovan. The remains of a roughly circular hut site (4.4m N-S; 4m E-W) defined by the lower courses of a partially collapsed, single-stone wide, drystone wall (T 0.45m; H 0.55m). Rubble is scattered in the level interior. A linear E-W wall forms a separate compartment in the N quadrant; its function is unclear. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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