What is recorded here

On the crest of a Kerry hill, just south of a standing stone, a small built-in grave waited for the dead. Farmers later ploughed the field and erased the marker, leaving only a gap in the land where memory should have stood. The stone remains, but the grave vanished, proving that even death can be cultivated away when people stop remembering what they buried.

In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O'Connell recorded that a 'small built-in grave, presumed to be ancient, existed on the crest of the hill' immediately S of the standing stone (KE066-011----) (SMR file). O'Connell added that this grave had disappeared some years ago following the cultivation of the field (ibid.). Its precise location is not known. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

A small built-in grave, likely a Neolithic or early Bronze Age cist burial, recorded near a standing stone; its wider significance is not clearly established.

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