What is recorded here

Three small square hut sites cling to the rushy slope of Leahan Mountain, their drystone walls barely rising above the heather before collapsing into the damp earth. They face the sea and Slieve League, suggesting people once watched the weather roll in from that exact angle. The closest structures touch or nearly touch, creating a crowded cluster rather than isolated shelters. This proximity implies shared heat, conversation and survival during brutal Donegal winters.

In poorly drained rushy covered mountain pasture, on the SE facing slope of Leahan Mountain with views of the sea to the S and Slieve League to the W. There is a clustered settlement of several hut sites (DG089-026004-/010-) 110m to the E. The poorly preserved heather covered remains of what appears to be three small square-shaped adjoining hut sites (DG089-026001/002/003-) or possibly the remains of a single rectangular house with three square-shaped chambers. The wall footings of the W wall of a third possible hut site(DG089-026003-) runs off the NW angle of the second hut site. The most southerly hut site consists of the remains of a square hut site (int. dims. 2.4m E-W x 2.7m N-S) defined by a heather-covered, partially collapsed drystone wall (T 0.9m; H 0.5m) which survives 4 courses high. There is a possible entrance gap at the N end of the E wall. The second hut site (DG089-026002-) is only 1m to the N. Located in an area of a dense concentration of hut sites which appear to make up a clustered settlement (DG089-026001/021).

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