Belderg : Hut Circle
Visit Notes
Sunday, 16th March 2003
Here at Belderg (well, 1.5km north west) is an excavated round house and farm system. The house is defined by a low stone wall, which is faced by set stones on bith the inside and outside and filled with smaller rocks. It is about 6m in diameter. Within this are several wooden posts that mark the positions of the posts that must have held the roof up. There is a paved floor section that leads from the doorway, which is marked by a low sill stone, to a central hearth.
Around the house are large areas of excavated land, which were done to investigate the field systems. These were found to be 'lazy-beds' and indicate that the peat bogs had started to form when the house was built. This has been taken to indicate a great deal of pressure on the land by a burgeoning population - something that is hard to imagine in north-west Mayo today.
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