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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

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Cairn and its two hut sites stand on a south-facing ridge in County Kerry, looking across rough pasture toward Mangerton Mountain. The oval mound mixes limestone and sandstone, while the huts sit close enough to suggest people lived beside it rather than merely passing it. Grass and shadow have since swallowed the edges, but the layout still points to a small domestic world anchored beneath an open sky.
In a heavily overgrown area of rough pasture, on the S-facing slopes of a ridge, with views S to Mangerton Mountain. A roughly oval cairn (3.8m NW-SE; 3m NE-SW; H 0.8m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Hut sites (KE067-119013-, KE067-119012-) lie c. 2m to the W and c. 10m to the E, respectively. (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
A roughly oval cairn, likely of the Neolithic or early Bronze Age, possibly a funerary or ritual monument; its mixed stone construction and location suggest a local tradition of mound-building in the region.

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