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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

What is recorded here

Half a metre of stone in a Kerry field, yet the shape is exact: a shallow bowl with a hollow throat at its centre. Build that and you admit the land can still hold a chamber, a cache or a prayer. The LFU is no longer a vague smudge, but a small complete vessel waiting to be read.
'In the same large amalgamated field as the above site [KE038-091----], on a similar limestone reef is a low sub-circular stone-filled mound, 0.30m in maximum height and measuring 7.00m N-S by 6.00m E-W. A central depression measuring 2.00m N-S by 1.00m E-W is located 0.20m below the crest of the mound.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 30 April 2012

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