What is recorded here

Six shadow rings, some overlapping, mark the flat cemetery at South Point. They are not proud stones but buried edges, perhaps holding people who lived before roads or written names. The sea may have touched them, and the wind may have erased every trace of the hands that made them.

Geophysical survey (Licence no. 12R078) undertaken by The Discovery Programme for the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project, identified a series of features at South Point. A total of six annular, penannular and arcuate features with diameters ranging from 7m to 16m, some of which overlap were identified. On the basis of their size, form and layout, these features can be provisionally described as ring-ditches (Dowling 2014, 9). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 5 February 2015

Late Iron Age ring and cairn features; part of a broader study of Iron Age settlement and ritual practices in coastal Ireland.

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