What is recorded here

Half a metre high and four metres across, the grassy cairn sits on a low hill below Mangerton Mountain, its stones peeking through like teeth in a gum. It is not grand, but it is deliberate: a circle of rock set among pasture, near an enclosure and old field lines, as if people marked this spot because it mattered. Perhaps they buried someone, perhaps they simply claimed the view. Either way, the hilltop still holds its shape, waiting for someone to walk past and wonder what it remembered.

In rough pasture, on the top of a low hill, on the lower S-facing slopes of Mangerton Mountain. A circular grass-covered cairn (diam. 3.8m; H 0.5m) with stones exposed intermittently around the perimeter. There is an enclosure (KE084-055002-) c. 70m to the NE and a pre-bog field boundary (KE084-055001-) c. 130m to the E. 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 dates to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. Its location suggests it may be part of a broader funerary or ritual landscape associated with early farming communities in the region.

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