What is recorded here

Barrow stands as an oval mound of earth and stone on the west bank of a small river in County Kerry, Ireland. Cattle still graze the marshy grassland around it, unaware that they walk beside an ancient structure shaped by human hands and later wounded by flooding. The river has bitten into the western bank, carrying away part of the original form, yet the central platform remains visible above the wet ground. What was buried or built within it has vanished, leaving only a broad ridge where the land remembers a shape it no longer explains.

'The land is quite marshy and wet and is used as rough grazing for cattle at the moment. Several low banks of earth and stone also occur in this complex, but, as yet, their relationship to the barrows is unknown. Located on the west bank of a small river which is prone to flooding, c.200m from the coast in an area of marshy grassland. This barrow is oval in shape and consists of a central platform 12m N-S by 14m E-W and 0.65m high surrounded by a fosse with an average width of 4.0m. This fosse is 0.40m below the level of the top of the platform and 0.45m below the top of the bank. The enclosing bank has a maximum external height of 1.00m at west, average height being 0.50m. The barrow slopes in an E-W direction and the bank is less substantial at the point nearest the river, probably because of being partially denuded as a result of flooding. Total dimensions of the site are 20m N-S by 30m E-W. The south-eastern portion of the site has, or appears to have been truncated by a small mound.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 30 April 2012

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