What is recorded here

Cairn is a long stone terrace in County Kerry, built with quartz and perhaps once taller before people took what they wanted. A bronze staff disappeared from it after being found, leaving behind a hollow mystery rather than a finished story. The land still holds the shape of what was taken, waiting for someone honest enough to remember that loss is also a kind of record.

The cairn consists of a platform-like terrace of stone and measures 7.6m long and up to 1m high above the ground level on its SE side. A quantity of quartz is evident in its composition. The landowner indicated that the cairn was originally larger, and that it was faced on its downslope side. O'Connell reported that a 'bronze staff was found in it (1939a, 31), but the present location of this object is unknown. The site is locally referred to as the 'Cloughane'. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 107. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

A Neolithic cairn, likely dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE; its construction and use of quartz suggest ritual or funerary significance typical of early megalithic traditions in the region.

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