What is recorded here

St. Brendan’s Hermitage is a lost mound on the south slope of Brandon Hill, named for a hermit who may have sat there watching the sea. It vanished before modern cameras, leaving only a name and a hill that still points north.

On Brandon Hill. According to Shearman (1876-8, 195-6), ‘The summit of the hill is crowned by a large cairn [KK029-032001-]; on the northern side is a circle of standing stones [KK029-032002-], about 15 yards in diameter, and on the south slope is a smaller circle [KK029-041001-] and a mound of earth [KK029-041002-] called St. Brendan’s Hermitage’. The precise location of the smaller circle, possible a hut site, and the mound is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 March 2022

Neolithic passage tomb with a surrounding stone circle; dates to the late Neolithic period (c. 2500–2000 BCE). The combination of a cairn and stone circle suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, typical of funerary and communal sites in early Irish prehistory.

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