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Hut site in Málainn Bhig

Hut site

What is recorded here

Five conjoined huts and a circular companion crouch in rushy pasture on Leahan Mountain, their low stone walls barely rising above the heather. They face the sea and Slieve League, suggesting people once watched weather and water from this narrow valley. The fourth hut lacks a visible door, as if the mountain itself forgot where the inside began.
In poorly drained rushy covered mountain pasture, in small river valley, on the SE facing slope of Leahan Mountain with views of the sea to the S and Slieve League to the W. Situated on heather covered rough pasture overlooking mountain stream to SW and W. One of five conjoined rectangular shaped huts orientated on a NE-SW line (DG089-026017-021) with a conjoined circular hut site (DG089-026015-) 10m to SW and rectangular hut site (DG 089-026016-) 10m to S. The fourth hut site from the SW end of five conjoined hut sites consists of a square-shaped area (int. dims. 2.4m x 2.36m; wall T 0.9m; H 0.4m) defined by a low heather covered drystone wall which survives two to four courses high with no clear entrance feature visible. 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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