What is recorded here

Half a metre of grassy roof hides a chamber where someone trusted the earth to keep a secret. The boulder still points northeast and southwest across the Dromoghty valley, as if aiming at a road no longer walked.

In rough pasture, on the W side of the valley of the Dromoghty River. The boulder-burial stands in the centre of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-010001-) and consists of a flat-topped boulder (2.2m x 1.3m; T 0.65m) resting on three support-stones. The boulder is aligned on the main axis of the stone circle (NE-SW). The support-stones are flat-topped blocks exposed to a height of 0.15m. Small pad-stones on top of each support-stone serve to steady the boulder. A standing stone (KE101-010003-), also stands in the centre of the stone circle, 2m to the S of the boulder-burial. (Ó Nualláin 1978, 99, no. 41) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Boulder-burial, likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its placement within a stone circle suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, possibly linked to funerary practices or landscape symbolism.

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