What is recorded here

Mangerton Mountain still wears the Devil's Punchbowl name, yet the small stone stack sits at its precipice like a warning or a gift. Whether people built it to mark danger or receive clarity, the stones have answered every climb. Size and origin no longer matter. The mountain is telling you something, and you are finally listening.

In boggy hill pasture, on level ground, at the N-facing precipice of the Devil's Punchbowl on Mangerton Mountain. A cairn (diam. c. 7m; H 0.35m) of compact moss-covered stones, with a smaller cairn (diam. 1.4m; H 0.4m) of loose stones on top of it. 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 cairn, likely Bronze Age in date, possibly associated with funerary or ritual practices; its location on Mangerton Mountain suggests a connection to the broader prehistoric landscape of the region.

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