What is recorded here

Cairn is one of eight oval stones arranged in a rough arc inside a Kerry enclosure, preserving a shape that may have marked ceremony, boundary or memory. Quartz glints among the exposed rocks, suggesting the pile was built to catch light rather than hide in shadow. The stones still stand where they were set, waiting for a person to notice the pattern they completed.

One of a group of eight cairns (see KE093-094002-, KE093-094003-, 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 partly sod-covered cairn (3m NW-SE; 2.2m NE-SW; H 0.55m) is oval in shape. Stones of various shapes and sizes, some of which are quartz, are exposed on its N half. Another cairn (KE093-094006-) lies 9m to the NNE. 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 indicating a complex prehistoric landscape in the Gortlahard area.

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