What is recorded here
West Cork, Ireland. Rath CO131-009 contains a circular hut site 9.95m NW-SE and 7.8m NE-SW in its southern quadrant. The rath and hut belong to one another: a defensible ring, then a smaller living ring inside it. People may have stood at the hut’s edge and seen the whole valley through a gap in the bank.
In a rath (CO131-009----). Circular hut site (9.95m NW-SE; 7.8m NE-SW) in S quadrant of interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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