What is recorded here
Cairn: A 2.8m circular stone pile in County Kerry, Ireland, built from mixed limestone and sandstone. It sits on a ridge slope facing Mangerton Mountain, with a second cairn 6m to the SSW. The stones are assorted sizes, not uniform, suggesting repeated use or layered making rather than a single event. Grass and pasture have grown around it, softening its edges but not erasing its shape. The pair may have marked a boundary, a path, a burial or a promise. In a place where mountains appear suddenly, even a small circle of stone becomes a anchor for memory.
In a heavily overgrown area of rough pasture, on the S-facing slopes of a ridge, with views S to Mangerton Mountain. A roughly circular cairn (diam. 2.8m; H 0.6m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Another cairn (KE067-119005-) is c. 6m to the SSW. (O'Donnell 2001; O'Donnell 2003)
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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