What is recorded here

Four narrow huts cling to the inner cliff of Monacarroge, their stone walls leaning against the sea wind instead of standing alone. The smallest chamber measures barely two and a half metres, yet its entrance still faces the land, as if privacy mattered more than grandeur. People may have slept there during storms or kept small fires alive through winter, using the fort’s own bank as a back wall. The bay can be brutal, but these huts show that even a tiny corner of rock could become a home when shaped by human hands.

Monacarroge/Móin na Caróige: This small promontory fort, jutting S into Dingle Bay, is referred to by Westropp (1910, 278) by the name of the adjacent field. The bank skirting the E cliff edge in the interior forms the back wall of 4 adjoining hut-sites (KE052-285001-, KE052-285002-, KE052-285003- & KE052-285004-) which extend S from the inner defence. The internal dimensions range from 3.4 x 1.9m to 2.6 x 1.5m, and the enclosing banks average 1 to 1.7m in width, .3m in height externally and slightly higher internally. The entrance gaps occur at one or other end of the W walls. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 274. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

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