What is recorded here

Cairn is a partly sod-covered stone mound in rough pasture on a south-facing slope above the Sheen River valley in County Kerry, Ireland. It measures 2.6m north-south, 1.6m east-west and 0.42m high, with basal stones still protruding through the peat. Two other cairns lie within 50m, and a relict field boundary marks the edge of an older working landscape. The mound may have guided people through open pasture, marked a boundary or honoured someone whose name has not survived.

In rough pasture, on a S-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Sheen River to the SW and W. A partly sod-covered, roughly oval cairn (2.6m N-S; 1.6m E-W; H 0.42m) with basal stones protruding from the peat. A cairn (KE093-097003-) lies c. 50m to the NW and another cairn (KE093-097004-) is c. 30m to the W. A relict field boundary (KE093-097001-) is in the immediate vicinity. 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 roughly oval cairn, likely of Bronze Age date, possibly a funerary or ritual monument. Its location on a south-facing slope overlooking a valley suggests a strategic or symbolic placement within the landscape.

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