What is recorded here

The southern bank holds a circular hollow with a low stone rim, perhaps marking a hut buried inside the rampart itself. North of that shadow sits an L-shaped mound, wide enough to have sheltered a family before the earth swallowed its walls. These are not pretty ruins but broken lines in the hillside, waiting for someone patient enough to read them without forcing a shape.

Hut site described by Cuppage (1986, 170-71, no. 504) as follows; 'A substantial univallate rath [KE042-131----] containing traces of possible hut-sites and a possible Man-made underground passage. It abuts the W side of a roadway on the E slopes of Croaghmarhin. A roughly circular hollow, enclosed by a low band of earth and stones, occurs in the inner face of the bank at S. It is difficult to be certain that this is a hut-site as the bank is considerably disturbed in this sector. The hollow is c. 3m in diameter and the enclosing bank is up to 1.15m high and c. 2m wide. The entrance may have been in the N sector. A roughly L-shaped mound of earth and stones is located about 4m to NNE of the latter feature. It is c. 4.5m long E-W and c. 1.9m high. It may be the remains of a rectangular hut-site. Much of the N portion of the interior is occupied by irregular ridges and hollows, the mounds being composed chiefly of stone. They do not conform to any recognisable pattern but some linear hollows may indicate a Man-made underground passage and some large prostrate slabs in the vicinity may be related to this. The largest mound measures 5.05m E-W and is up to 1.2m high. It may be the remains of the structure described by O'Sullivan (1931, 520) as 'a rectangular stone structure about 4 feet high, roofed with flags, one of which has fallen in.'

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