What is recorded here

Knockanoughanish Mountain still holds an eight-metre stone ring in its rough pasture, perhaps marking a lost boundary, a buried body or a place where people wanted to remember. Grass and forgetting have softened its edges, but the stones remain large enough to touch and old enough to belong before written memory.

In rough hill pasture, on a NW-facing slope of Knockanoughanish Mountain. A subcircular partially grass-covered cairn (8m E-W; 7m N-S; H 0.8m) comprising stones of various shapes and sizes. A central hollow appears to be the result of disturbance. The perimeter of the cairn has also been disturbed in places. 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 dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE; its partially preserved structure and central hollow suggest ritual or funerary use typical of early burial practices in the region.

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