Hut site, Ballydunlea, Co. Kerry
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Settlement Sites
In the townland of Ballydunlea in County Kerry, there survives the remains of a hut site, one of those quietly persistent features of the Irish landscape that tends to attract little attention yet speaks to a very long tradition of rural habitation.
Hut sites of this kind are the surviving traces of simple stone or earthen shelters, often circular in plan, used by farming or pastoral communities across many centuries. They can be difficult to date with precision and are frequently passed over in favour of more dramatically visible monuments nearby.
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