What is recorded here

On a limestone reef rising fifty feet above the Lee Valley, a dozen-foot cairn still stands beside housing built after excavators levelled two smaller mounds and exposed cremated bone. The stones resisted grass, marking themselves clear against the green slope while quartz balls linked the buried dead to rituals at Ballycarty. Now overgrowth swallows the lost shapes, leaving only the largest mound and a broken bank to remember what the machines took.

There is no trace of the ‘carn’ noted at this location by the Kerry Archaeological Survey. No further details are available. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 237. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.