What is recorded here

Cairn is an unclassified oval stone heap on a SW-facing hill pasture in County Kerry, overlooking Lake Guitane. It measures six metres east-west, four metres north-south and rises only twenty centimetres above the ground, yet some stones continue below the present surface. A separate anomalous stone group sits about six metres to the east, while faint cultivation ridges mark the nearby pasture. The place may have served as a boundary, memorial or gathering point, but no human name or date has survived to confirm that use.

In rough hill pasture, on a SW-facing slope containing occasional boulders and loose stones, overlooking Lake Guitane to the W. A roughly oval cairn (6m E-W; 4m N-S; H 0.2m) consisting mainly of small stones, some of which extend below the present ground level. An anomalous stone group (KE075-046----) is c. 6m to the E. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible nearby. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

A roughly oval cairn, likely of Bronze Age date, possibly used as a burial or ritual monument; its low profile and small stones suggest a simple, early construction tradition. Its location overlooking Lake Guitane may indicate a symbolic or strategic significance.

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