What is recorded here
On rough grazing land on N side of Low Island. Roughly circular area (7.4m NE-SW; 7m NW-SE) eroded by sea on SE side where sharp fall to rocky shore; enclosed elsewhere (SSW->E) by low earthen bank with some stones (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.4m). Interior sunken and sloping down to SE. Low bank (H c. 0.2m) extends from W side of hut NW across island (L c. 25m).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO151-054
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- Mac McCarron, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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