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Hut site

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In rough pasture on a N facing slope, overlooking Portmagee Channel. A roughly rectangular drystone hut with a sod-covered external wall-face. Two prostrate slabs define a .6m wide entrance. Two adjacent, lintelled wall chambers are located in the interior at W. They average 2.5m long, .5m high and .75m wide. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1185.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE088-007

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Commander-pirx, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Phil Champion, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Draceane, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kurt Stüber [1], Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Jonathan Billinger, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Marco Ober, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Doug Snider, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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