Hut site

The National Monuments Service's description

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. A pair of roughly circular conjoined huts of drystone wall construction. NE circular-shaped hut (int. dims. 1.5m x 2.43) is defined by a low heather covered drystone wall (H 0.75m; T 0.7m) which has collapsed in places and has no evidence of an entrance feature. There is evidence of what appears to be a small wall cupboard of aumbry low down in the external face of the SE wall which faces into the interior of the SE hut. The SE D-shaped hut (approx. int. dims. 2.52m x 3.71m) is poorly preserved with only the NE and SE walls (T 0.8m-1m; H 0.45m) surviving. There is a wide gap on the SE side where there is no evidence of an enclosing wall, the original entrance may have been located on this side. Nearby conjoined drystone hut to the SE. Located in an area of a dense concentration of hut sites which appear to make up a clustered settlement (DG089-026001/021).