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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

What is recorded here

Cairn is a limestone reef in County Kerry where ancient stone mounds still stand beside new housing, linking local memory to the broader ritual landscape of Kerry. The largest surviving mound reaches about 1.6 metres high and spans around 12 metres across, built from angular limestone, while smaller worn cairns and a stone bank suggest an enclosed ceremonial place. Construction nearby destroyed two small mounds and exposed cremated bone and quartz balls, evidence that the reef was not empty but shaped by human ritual. What remains is partly hidden by overgrowth, yet the reef still rises above the valley like a marker forgotten by the town but never fully erased.
This is 'B' described by the 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' (see report now included in SMR file) as a 'mound of stones'.

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