What is recorded here

Cairn is an unclassified oval mound straddling an outcropping rock on a Kerry hilltop ridge, commanding extensive views in all directions. Stones have tumbled downslope on both sides, while short slab sections on the north may still outline its original extent. Two smaller modern cairns now sit atop the rock, built from stones taken from the ancient mound. The place preserves both continuity and loss: a old landmark reshaped by human hands into new markers on the same ridge.

In rough pasture, on the spine of a ridge on a hilltop commanding extensive views in all directions. An oval cairn (18.5m N-S; 12m E-W; H 4.5m) straddles an E-W outcropping rock and stones from it have tumbled downslope on both the N and S sides. Short sections of stone slabs, set contiguously on the N side, possibly outline the original extent of the cairn. Stones from the cairn have been used to construct two smaller modern cairns (H 1.8m) on top of the outcropping rock. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

A Neolithic cairn, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE; its position on a prominent hilltop suggests ritual or funerary significance, common in Neolithic monument placement.

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