What is recorded here
A circular stone hut hides in a field wall beside the river in Baile Uí Uaithnín, its large boulders still standing sixty centimetres above the thin peat. The northwest section has collapsed, but the remaining wall marks a small dwelling built before the bog swallowed the land. Someone lived there, breathed there, and left behind a ring of stones that resists forgetting.
Hut site described by Cuppage (1986, 24, no. 25 (g)) as; 'This circular hut is incorporated into one of the pre-bog field walls running E-W on the E side of the river. It measures 3m in diameter internally but the NW section of the wall is largely destroyed. Elsewhere the wall stands to a maximum height of 0.6m above the thin peat cover and is constructed of 3 to 4 courses of large boulders'.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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