What is recorded here

Cairn is a sod-covered stone mound on a bog slope above Lough Inchiquin, keeping company with a wedge tomb and cist nearby. Gorse bushes still grow through its summit, marking the place as both forgotten and remembered. People may have laid stones there for burial, boundary or prayer, but the land has kept that purpose ambiguous. What is clear is that the hill still holds a small made shape, waiting to be read.

In rough hill grazing, on bog on a SW-facing slope overlooking the valley of Lough Inchiquin. A roughly circular sod-covered mound of stones (diam. 4.5m; H 0.55m) with gorse bushes on its summit. The stones which comprise the cairn are of various shapes and sizes. A wedge tomb (KE101-069001) and an adjacent cist (KE101-069002-) lie c. 60m to NNW. 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 circular cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age, associated with funerary or ritual practices; its location on a prominent slope suggests a possible viewshed or territorial significance.

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