What is recorded here

Indicated is a hut site on Gortaclare Mountain, County Clare, where stone chambers and animal pens still mark a busy hillside home. The main chamber measures 6.5m N-S and 5m E-W, built from flags set on edge and flags laid flat. A second chamber lies 10m NE, with two pens beside it and a wedge tomb 60m SE. People may have lived there, kept animals and buried their dead across several periods.

On a terrace at the foot of a low S-facing ridge on Gortaclare Mountain, in an area of rough patchy grazing and bare rock pavement. A subcircular hut site (ext. diam. 6.5m N-S; 5m E-W) defined by a mixture of flags set on edge and flags on the flat. The interior is filled with stone. A second hut site (CL006-042021-) lies c. 10m to the NE and two animal pens are adjacent to N and NE. The hut sites lie within an extensive and multiperiod field system (CL006-0420001-) and a wedge tomb (CL006-042009-) lies c. 60m to SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 14 September 2021

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