Hut site, Com Na Heorna Thoir, Co. Kerry
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In the townland of Com Na Heorna Thoir, in the south-west corner of County Kerry, there survives the remains of a rectangular hut site, the kind of modest, easily overlooked structure that tends to disappear into the landscape unless you know to look for it.
Rectangular huts of this type are generally associated with seasonal occupation or agricultural activity, and they appear with some frequency across the upland and coastal fringes of Kerry, where communities once moved livestock to summer pastures in a practice known as booleying.
What the archaeological record notes about this particular site is brief but telling: it is described as a second rectangular hut, a phrase that implies at least one companion structure nearby, suggesting this was not a solitary shelter but part of a small cluster of activity. O'Sullivan and Sheehan, whose 1996 inventory of south-west Kerry remains a key reference for the region's lesser-known monuments, catalogued the site as entry number 1220, placing it within a broader survey of the remarkable concentration of early and medieval remains that characterise this part of the Iveragh Peninsula.