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Hut site in Málainn Bhig

Hut site

What is recorded here

Five courses of drystone still stand on the SE slope of Leahan Mountain, enclosing a rectangular space barely large enough for one person to sit and face the sea. The rushes and heather have swallowed most of the wall, but the shape remains clear enough to show that someone chose this exact spot where the valley opens toward Slieve League. It belongs to a clustered settlement of six hut sites, suggesting neighbourhood rather than solitude, though no name or date has survived to tell whose hands built it.
In poorly drained rushy covered mountain pasture, in small river valley, on the SE facing slope of Leahan Mountain with views of the sea to the S and Slieve League to the W. This is one hut site of a clustered settlement of 6 hut sites (DG089-026004/010-). A cluster of 3 hut sites (DG089-026001/003-) are located 100m to the W. The poorly preserved heather covered remains of a rectangular hut site (int. dims 2.32m x 1.35m) which has been built in to the side of the SE facing slope defined by a heather covered drystone wall which survives 5 courses high. Nearby hut site (DG089-026010-) to SE. Located in an area of a dense concentration of hut sites which appear to make up a clustered settlement (DG089-026001/021).

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