Monument record MHG10046 - Coille Bad Mheasain

NC91SW 20 938 133.

Centred NC 938 133. A settlement of three stone-walled hut circles ('A' - 'C'), within a small field system was found during field investigation, in an exposed position high on a west-facing hillside, where the gradient eases.
Hut 'A', NC 9389 1342, is 7.5m N-S by 5.5m within a wall spread to 2.0m broad. A depression in the south arc probably indicates an entrance. Hut 'B', NC 9386 1335, ill-defined in south arc, is about 9.5m N-S by 8m E-W inside a wall in which occasional inner and outer facing stones are visible, indicating a thickness of 2m in the north arc. There is no entrance visible.
Hut 'C', NC 9385 1343, about 7m in diameter within a denuded wall spread to 2m broad. There is no entrance visible.
Associated cultivation is limited to a small area of cleared ground in which one or two stone clearance heaps and a lynchet are visible. On the downslope are traces of two boulder walls. The steepness of the slope restricts the amount of land suitable for arable use.
Surveyed at 1:10,560. Visited by OS (J M) 13 May 1976.