Hut site

The National Monuments Service's description

In poorly drained rushy covered mountain pasture, on the SE facing slope of Leahan Mountain with views of the sea to the S and Slieve League to the W. There is a clustered settlement of several hut sites (DG089-026004-/010-) 110m to the E. The poorly preserved heather covered remains of what appears to be three small square-shaped adjoining hut sites (DG089-026001/002/003-) or possibly the remains of a single rectangular house with three square-shaped chambers. The wall footings of the W wall of a third possible hut site(DG089-026003-) runs off the NW angle of the second hut site. The middle hut site consists of the remains of a square hut site (int. dims. 2.7m E-W x 1.8m N-S) defined by a heather-covered, partially collapsed drystone wall (T 0.9m; H 0.5m) which survives 2 courses high. The N wall is the best preserved with only half of the S wall upstanding and the whole of the E wall has been robbed out. There is a possible entrance gap at the S end of the E wall. The second hut site (DG089-026002-) is only 1m to the S and a third hut site appears to run off the NW angle of this hut site. The drystone walls of the second hut site are not as well built as the first hut site. Located in an area of a dense concentration of hut sites which appear to make up a clustered settlement (DG089-026001/021).