What is recorded here

Caunoge mountain holds a forgotten field grid beneath western peat, waiting for turf cuts to reveal upright boulders and intersecting lines. The rock beside the walls carries cup marks and rings, half erased by time or weather. A modern road now splits the place, but the old angle of the boundaries still emerges when the mountain is cut open.

Blanket peat covers the lower W slopes of Caunoge mountain on the S side of the Ferta river valley, where turf-cutting has revealed a series of walls in an area measuring 140m N-S x 250m E-W. The majority of these occur between .7m and 1m below the present level of the peat, and vary between .9m and 1.2m thick. They are mainly constructed of intermittent upright boulders, with infilling of small stones between. Most of the walls are linear and run either N-S or E-W; a number of intersections are visible. The complex is bisected by a modern road. An exposed section of outcrop, 2.05m x 1m, located close to one of the walls, features seven cup-marks, eight cup-and-rings and one cup-and-two rings on its upper surface. Half of the circles are incomplete, possibly as a result of weathering. A scattering of pock-marks occurs to one side of the rock art motifs. 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. 48. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

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