What is recorded here

Close your eyes. Drop the chambers and lights. An unknown hand built a small oval marker on a high ridge, perhaps for a dead person, perhaps for a boundary, perhaps for a gift to the storm. Grass has softened it and time has taken the meaning, but the stones still point upward beside the lakes.

In rough hill pasture, on the highest point of a rocky ridge, overlooking Cloonee Lakes and Kenmare Bay. A partially sod-covered oval cairn (4.8m E-W; 3.3m N-S; H 0.9m) of stones of various sizes. The S edge is the least well-defined and stones have spilled downslope at this point. 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; date uncertain but likely early first millennium BCE. Its location suggests ritual or funerary significance, common for such monuments in the region.

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