What is recorded here

The Dingle Peninsula survey identified a low circular quartz cairn beside a clochaun entrance, large enough for one buried body and marked by a single upright stone. That much is clear. Whether the upright marked a named person, a family line or a boundary between the living and the dead is no longer written anywhere visible. The chamber, cairn and upright still stand together, preserving the shape of a place where people set the dead aside and walked on.

Located 4m S of the entrance to a clochaun (KE034-093004-) is a low circular cairn of stones, pre-dominantly quartz, defined by a kerb of large stones; it measures 4.25 to 4.45m in diameter. A single low upright in the cairn may be a gravemarker. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage (compiler) 'Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey.' Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne (1986), no. 1038. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2013

Quartz kerbed cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Such cairns are significant as early funerary monuments, reflecting early ritual practices and landscape use in the region.

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