Caherlehillan : Hut Circle
Visit Notes
Monday, 10th August 2009
What a strange place! This monument is a ruined corbelled hut built on top of a long east-west ridge. There is a wedge tomb not too far away.
The walls still stand to a height of over 1.5m and the inward curve can be clearly seen as the wall rises. There is a gap in the wall providing access, but this is not the original entrance. The real entrance can be seen just tothe side of this gap. There is a low, lintelled hole in the wall and outside of this there are the walls of a long passage about 40cm high. When this domed building was complete it would have looked like an igloo!
Being on top of this ridge did provide the resdients with fine views, but the wind would have howled around the site. This is probably the reason for building the passage in front of the entrance.
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A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
5.9 Km (ENE) there is a Rock Art at Kealduff Upper.
5.8 Km (ENE) there is a Rock Art at Kealduff Upper.
100 m (E) there is a Wedge Tomb at Caherlehillan.
4.6 Km (WSW) there is a Rock Art at Ballynahow Beg.
A Selection of Other Hut Circles
 Ballynahown (Co. Clare) |  Drombeg - Hut Site (Co. Cork) |  Belderg (Co. Mayo) |
 Circle K (Co. Limerick) |  Burren (Co. Cavan) |  Mullaghfarna (Co. Sligo) |
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