What is recorded here

Cairn is one of eight stones arranged in a rough arc inside an ancient Kerry enclosure, standing twenty-seven metres from the wall like a forgotten marker in a human game. Grass and soil have swallowed most of its shape, leaving only a low ridge where the earth cannot fully hide the stones beneath. People may have built the arc to measure distance, honour the dead, or simply exclude others from the middle, but the stones still point inward, waiting for someone to remember what they marked.

One of a group of eight cairns (see KE093-094003-, KE093-094004-, KE093-094005-, KE093-094006-, KE093-094007-, KE093-094008-, KE093-094009-) which are arranged in a rough arc in the E half of an enclosure (KE093-094001-). This circular cairn (diam. 4m; H 0.8m) is sod-covered apart from the base N-E where stones of various sizes are exposed. It is c. 27m from the enclosing wall of the enclosure at SE. Another cairn (KE093-094003-) lies 14m to the NW. 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, part of a ritual or funerary enclosure; significant as one of several cairns arranged in a structured pattern, indicating complex prehistoric land use and communal activity in the Gortlahard area.

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