What is recorded here

Mangerton’s green shoulder rises through a break in the pasture, witnessed by two small cairns set a few metres apart. The larger is a low circle of mixed limestone and sandstone, deliberately placed over a narrow pit that yielded nothing when opened. Perhaps people brought stone from more than one place, built a marker around an empty hole, and left the meaning behind.

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 mound (diam. 3.1m; H 0.6m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Another cairn (KE067-119007-) is c. 6m to the NNE. Partial excavation in 2001 revealed that the stone cairn was deliberately set over a pit (diam. c. 2m) and no finds were recovered (O'Donnell 2003, 160). (O'Donnell 2001) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.