What is recorded here

Barraboy Mountain drops its last breath into Kerry sky, and the cairn sits at the edge of that breath. A cone of stone rises inside the older circle, as if someone answered a voice only they could hear. The mountain is not empty; it is waiting to be witnessed.

In rough pasture, on the summit of Barraboy Mountain. A partly grass-covered circular cairn (3.8m E-W; 3.7m N-S; H 0.5m) comprising stones of various shapes and sizes, protruding from the peat. The cairn is defined by a scarp (H 0.3m) along the circumference N-SE and by a low bank of earth and stone SE-SW. Stones from the cairn are scattered downslope at NW. A recent cone-shaped cairn (2.2m N-S; 2m E-W; H 1.2m) has been built at the centre of the main cairn. 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 Bronze Age funerary cairn; its location on a mountain summit suggests ritual or ceremonial significance.

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