What is recorded here
On a rough hill pasture terrace, on the S-facing rocky slopes of Eagle Hill and within a network of relict field boundaries (CO114-065004-). The remains of a D-shaped hut site (1.2m E-W) defined by a collapsed, curving, drystone wall (T 0.4m; H 0.6m) and with a straight W side (L 1.6m) consisting of the linear face of outcropping rock. Gorse-covered rubble is scattered in the interior and around the perimeter of the hut site externally. Another hut site (CO115-065002-) is 8m to the NE.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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