Hut site, Ardacluckeen, Co. Kerry

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Hut site, Ardacluckeen, Co. Kerry

On the Iveragh Peninsula in South Kerry, a pair of small stone huts sit pressed against the inner face of an earthen bank, their foundations still legible beneath a covering of sod.

The arrangement is quietly telling: two subrectangular rooms set side by side, built into the shelter of the bank rather than standing freely in the landscape, suggesting a practical intimacy with the terrain rather than any ceremonial ambition.

The northern of the two huts has been measured at roughly 4.3 metres north to south and 4.8 metres east to west internally, with stone foundations around 1.3 metres wide surviving to a maximum height of half a metre. A gap of 2.5 metres on the eastern side marks what was once an entrance. The foundations are subrectangular in plan, meaning roughly rectangular with slightly irregular corners, a form common in early medieval and later vernacular building in Ireland. The details were documented by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996, and the site sits within a broader landscape on the peninsula that contains a dense concentration of early settlement remains.

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