What is recorded here

Clearing stones from a field in Kerry may have built the mound, or a forgotten sheep-fold may have collapsed into the same shape. The earthen ridge and stony heap still divide the ground beside Smerwick Harbour, keeping the boundary between useful land and buried time. A local story places a grave nearby, suggesting the mound has witnessed more than farming.

An irregular mound situated on low-lying, level ground on the E side of Smerwick Harbour. It abuts the N side of an E-W field fence. The N portion of the mound is composed of stones which may simply be field clearance debris, but the S half consists of a low, earthen ridge running E-W and separated from the stony mound by a linear hollow, 4m long E-W x 1.5m wide. The feature measures 10.6m E-W x 9.1m N-S overall and varies from c. 1 to 1.8m in height. It may simply be an accumulation of field clearance debris, or the remains of a structure, perhaps a sheep-fold. There is a local tradition of a grave in the vicinity. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1557. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

A possible Neolithic or early Bronze Age burial mound; its significance is locally constrained due to limited recorded context and disturbance.

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