What is recorded here

Death and memory belong to the south-west corner of a steep Kerry field, where an oval hut and a collapsed mound still hold their shape beneath loose stone. O'Malley misplaced the graves a field north, but the stones themselves point south, preserving what human mapping forgot.

Located in the SW corner of a steeply sloping field. Remnants of an oval-shaped hut (KE088-037----) of rough construction with a .9m wide entrance at N. Stone collapse fills the interior and abuts the external wall-face. Adjacent at S, a roughly circular-shaped mound of stone collapse with protruding slabs at its centre and along the S side. Possibly a collapsed hut (KE088-037001-). Old collapsed field walls (KE088-037003-) and a dense scattering of loose stone lie within this quadrant of the field. This may be the 'graves site' (KE088-037002-) noted by O'Malley, though he erroneously places the site one field to the N (OPW, 1937). It may also be the location of the square hut 'near Coolaconan' sketched by Lynch (1902a, 55). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1331. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

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