Megalithic structure in Aghatubrid — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Megalithic tomb on the crest of a Kerry ridge, facing both Valencia Harbour and Ballinskelligs Bay, with Kilpeacan church ruins two hundred metres away. Upright slabs form an open chamber, while two stones stand outside to the east as if waiting for someone to step through. The dead may have been laid beneath skies still visible from both coasts, and the living may have walked past them toward water and light.

This site is located in upland pasture on the crest of a ridge that extends SW from Aghatubrid mountain. It commands a wide outlook to Valencia Harbour at NW and Ballinskelligs Bay at S. The early ecclesiastical site of Kilpeacan (KE088-015001-) lies about 200m to ENE. The site consists of a roughly rectangular arrangement of upright slabs, open at W, measuring approximately 3.7m ENE-WSW x 2m NNW-SSE. Two uprights occur 1.85m E of this arrangement. The N side of the monument is composed of three uprights, ranging from .3m to 1m high. A possible packing stone occurs outside the upright at E, and measures .14m high. An upright, .25m high x .6m wide, and a large recumbent slab, now partly overgrown by sod, 2.2m x 1.05m x .2m, delineates its S side. Two uprights occur close to the E end of the monument, one set inside the line of the other. The upright at N is disposed at right angles to the E end of the middle stone at the N side, and measures .97m high and .66m x .18m at base. The upright at S measures .73m x 1.49m x .2m thick. Outside the monument to E, the two uprights, set one behind the other, maintain a roughly similar alignment to its S side. They average .3m high and .75m wide x .11m thick. The site has been interpreted as the remains of a megalithic tomb by Henry (1957, 84). 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. 1469. 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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