What is recorded here

Knocknagullion still wears a circular stone ring half-swallowed by bog and heather. The hill is old enough to have watched people tie knots, bury markers or simply remember the shape of the sky. What is certain is that the stones remain placed, not scattered, and the land has not forgotten the difference.

In rough hill pasture, on blanket bog, on the NE-facing slopes of Knocknagullion and within a network of relict field boundaries (KE091-114009-). A roughly circular cairn (3.5m NW-SE; 3m NE-SW; H 0.5m) of mainly large stones protrudes above the surface of the bog. There are indications of disturbance on the top of the cairn, which is partially obscured by gorse and heather. Traces of kerbing are visible along the E arc. There is another cairn (KE091-114007-) c. 8m to the NE 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 of Bronze Age date, possibly funerary in function; its location within a network of relict field boundaries suggests a broader prehistoric landscape context.

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