Johnstown Hut Site 2

Nearest town:
Ballymore Eustace (5km WNW)
OS reference:
N955058
OS sheet:
56
Latitude:
53° 5' 39.38 N
Longitude:
6° 34' 27.31 W
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Image of Johnstown Hut Site 2 (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by ryaner

Cairn-like packing on what looks like a bank at the site.

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ryaner
ryaner Oct 28, 2014
Image of Johnstown Hut Site 2 (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by ryaner

The platform and the ‘hut site’. I think this may even be an unrecorded cairn.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Oct 28, 2014
Image of Johnstown Hut Site 2 (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by ryaner

From a large outcrop and looking roughly north-east, the site is on a leveled platform.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Oct 28, 2014

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Johnstown Hut Site 2

ryaner
ryaner Oct 28, 2014

This is not listed in the SMR. As I ascended south towards the summit of Broughills Hill from the barrow in Johnstown, along the boundary line between Johnstown and Kiernans Hill and in turn Broughills Hill, I spied a large, rocky outcrop. Though I was making for the summit in driving wind and rain, I couldn’t resist investigating. The outcrop is made of huge earthfast granite boulders, but below it to the east is a seemingly man-made platform containing this intriguing monument.

I can’t make out what it is, so I’ve listed it here as a hut site/habitation site, though i suspect that it may be a burial/chambered cairn, ruined and lost to history, until now. There are lots of lumps and bumps in the small, 8 metre diameter area, some of which may be a chamber, or may be the hearth of an old hut site. In the north-west quadrant there is erosion leaving packed, cairn-like stone visible. The whole mound is about half a metre tall, rising to a metre in places.

A mystery, leading me to reckon that this ridge, leading down from Broughills Hill, has not been properly surveyed.

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