Hut site, Carhan, Co. Kerry

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Hut site, Carhan, Co. Kerry

At Carhan in County Kerry, two curving sections of stone wall survive in the interior of an archaeological site, representing what may once have been a conjoined hut.

The form is modest and easy to overlook, but the detail matters: a conjoined hut is a structure where two roughly circular or oval cells share a common wall, a layout found across early medieval Ireland and associated with domestic or occasionally monastic use. What remains here is fragmentary, but the curve of the stonework is enough to suggest the original plan.

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