What is recorded here

Five shallow stone heaps still lie beneath up to thirty centimetres of peat in County Kerry, remnants of a field system older than the bog itself. Someone cleared those fields, stacked the rejected stones, and left the land open for growth. The bog closed over the work, but the shapes survived beneath the surface, waiting to be found again.

This is one of five clearance cairns (KE035-073023-; KE035-073030-; KE035-073031-; KE035-073029-) described by Cuppage (1986, 26, 25 (w)) as follows; 'These 5 heaps of small stones, 3m x 2m x 0.35 to 0.5m high on average, are overlain by up to 0.3m of peat and may be field clearance cairns related to the pre-bog field system. One of the cairns has been heaped against a large boulder, a common practice even today. The locations of these cairns are shown on fig. 14 (ibid., 22-3)'.

Clearance cairn, likely post-medieval in date. These cairns represent agricultural activity, formed from stone cleared from fields to improve arable land.

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