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Hut site in Na Leadhba Liatha

Hut site

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Na Leadhba Liatha holds a circular hut of intermittent uprights beside a rectangular stony platform, locally named a calluragh burial ground. Lynch recovered a hand-quern fragment there in 1902, linking the strange adjacent shapes to human life and death. The hut may have sheltered someone, while the platform marked the dead, creating a small domestic world where living and remembering touched.
One field S of KE097-019----. A hut (KE097-020----) defined by a circular setting of intermittent uprights with a slight external bank. An infilled Man-made underground passage (KE097-020001-) is reputed to be located in its interior (local information). D: 4.2m. A roughly rectangular platform, 7.7m x 6.2m, immediately E of the hut, with an uneven and stony surface. This site is locally referred to as a calluragh burial ground (KE097-020001-). Lynch found a portion of a hand-quern in this sector (1902b, 339) The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1347. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

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