Temple Hill, hut site in County Limerick

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Situated on the summit of Temple Hill with commanding views of SE Limerick, N Cork and much of S Tipperary. Listed as Knocknascrow 5 (Costello 2016, 309). Roughly circular drystone-walled shelter (ext. dims. 2.7m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.6m; T 0.6m) built into SE side of massive cairn (LI058-001----) which is open to the S , although its E wall extends slightly further S so as to act as a windbreak. Possibly a shelter for shepherds (Costello 2020, 116) or for OS workers when constructing Trig. Station marking OD 2570 ft. on top of cairn on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello Date of upload: 25 August 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI058-001001

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kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Neil Theasby, commons.wikimedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com

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