What is recorded here

Half a metre high and four metres across, the circular cairn sits on a south-west facing slope above the Sheen River, its perimeter stones still set like a kerb though gorse now chokes the centre. It is not the only marker nearby; a second cairn waits fifty metres to the north-northwest, suggesting a small cluster rather than a lonely deposit. People may have gathered there to remember the dead, mark a boundary or simply watch the valley, but the stones no longer explain themselves. What is certain is that someone chose this exact spot, lifted heavy rock and arranged it with care before the pasture and thorns took it back.

In rough pasture, on a SW-facing slope, in the valley of the Sheen River. A circular cairn (4.4m N-S; 4.2m E-W; H 0.6m) with stones set around the perimeter in a kerb-like fashion. The cairn is obscured by gorse. Another cairn (KE102-029001-) is c. 50m to the NNW. 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 Early to Middle Bronze Age, based on its kerb-like stone arrangement and location in a pastoral landscape. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of prehistoric funerary practices and settlement patterns in the Sheen River valley.

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