What is recorded here
Mangerton Mountain rises at the end of the ridge, suggesting the stones marked a boundary or a meeting place rather than a grave. Grass and thorns have since swallowed the field, forcing anyone who finds the cairn to push through a green wall before seeing the sky. The second stone circle waits fourteen metres away, large enough to hold several people standing together in the dark.
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. 1.5m; H 0.6m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Another cairn (KE067-094005-) is c. 14m to the SW. (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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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