What is recorded here
Cairn stands on a south-facing ridge in County Kerry, facing Mangerton Mountain, with a second cairn five metres east and a hut site fourteen metres west. Rough limestone and sandstone still mark the first circle, while grass and shadow have taken the rest. Whatever lived there has stopped answering, but the stones keep their shape against the 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 circular cairn (diam. 1.4m; H 0.3m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Another cairn (KE067-119005-) is c. 5m to the E. There is a hut site (KE067-119012-) c. 14m to the W. (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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