What is recorded here

Cairn is a low triangular stone mound in County Kerry, Ireland, barely thirty-five centimetres high but marked by two upright slabs at its eastern edge and another mysterious pair sitting further southeast. Field walls radiate from its southern and eastern points like forgotten roads, suggesting the stones once anchored a boundary or a path now lost beneath time. The exact purpose of those distant parallel slabs remains unknown, leaving the structure half-revealed and waiting for someone brave enough to ask what it guarded.

(c) Cairn: This low cairn of stones is roughly triangular in plan and measures 3.7m N-S x 4.3m E-W x .35m in height. It is partly revetted with drystone facing up to .35m high. At the E edge of the cairn, 2 parallel upright slabs, .58 and .55m high, stand .62m apart at right angles to the line of the cairn edge. About 2.4m SE of the cairn, another pair of slabs, .75m high, stand parallel to each other about 1.85m apart; their function is unknown. Two of the pre-bog field walls radiate out from the apexes of the cairn at S and E. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 29. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

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