What is recorded here
Hut site in Knockatotaun is a hut site in Knockatotaun, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies the north-west quadrant of a rath near the north-west bank. A sod-covered bank, one point two metres wide, rises point four metres internally and point six metres externally around a sunken rectangular area measuring seven point three metres north-south and ten point three metres east-west. Gaps one metre and two metres wide break the bank at the north and east.
In the NW quadrant of a rath (SL025-107001-), close to the bank at NW. A slightly sunken rectangular area (7.3m N-S; 10.3m E-W) defined by a sod-covered bank (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) with gaps at N (Wth 1m) and E (Wth 2m).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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