Hut site, Ballinlig, Co. Sligo

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Hut site, Ballinlig, Co. Sligo

On a narrow finger of land pushing out into the north-western shore of Ballysadare Bay in County Sligo, two low earthworks sit close together on Ballinlig Point, separated by roughly eight metres of ground.

The more southerly of the pair is a rectangular or oblong enclosure, measuring just over ten metres along its longest axis and five metres across, defined by a bank that barely rises above the surrounding surface, no more than thirty centimetres at its highest. These are hut sites, the term used for the faint ground-level traces of former human shelters, typically identifiable only by the low banks or stone footings that once anchored walls now long gone.

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