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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

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Cairn is a small, roughly circular stone pile on a south-facing ridge in County Kerry, Ireland, built from mixed limestone and sandstone. It sits in rough pasture overlooking Mangerton Mountain, with a second cairn barely seven metres away. The pair may have marked a boundary, a memory, or a moment when someone wanted the mountain to notice them.
In a heavily overgrown area of rough pasture on the S-facing slopes of a ridge, with views S to Mangerton Mountain. A roughly circular cairn (diam. 2.7m; H 0.7m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Another cairn (KE067-119002-) is c. 7m to the S. (O'Donnell 2001; O'Donnell 2003) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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