What is recorded here

Bronze Age builders shaped a D-shaped shelter from loose stone on the south-facing slopes of Knockleama, forcing a straight eastern wall into the emerging field boundary. They likely herded livestock through the rough hill grazing or waited out violent Atlantic storms, knowing the peaty terrace would hold warmth when surrounding valleys filled with fog. The collapsed rubble and nearby cairn suggest the hut remained a living marker long after its roof vanished, binding human memory to the changing hill.

In rough hill grazing, on a peaty terrace on the S-facing slopes of Knockleama and within a field system (KE083-023002-). The remains of a D-shaped hut site (2m E-W) defined by the lower courses of a partially collapsed stone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.8m) with a straight E side (L 2.6m) which is incorporated into a N-S field wall. Rubble is scattered in the level interior. There is a cairn (KE083-023014-) c. 40m to the N and an enclosure (KE083-023016-) c. 10m to the SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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