Hut site, Lackaroe, Co. Kerry
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At Lackaroe in south-west Kerry, a small circular structure sits quietly within a larger enclosure, its drystone walls still standing to roughly half a metre in height despite the passage of what may be many centuries.
The hut is modest in every dimension, just two and a half metres in diameter, the kind of space that would have sheltered a single person or served some focused domestic or agricultural purpose. The walls, built from large stones without mortar, are nearly a metre thick, a construction method that speaks to practical necessity rather than any architectural ambition. A scatter of smaller stones across the interior and around the perimeter hints at a floor or collapse that time has not fully sorted out.
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