What is recorded here

Mortons and Firth’s forays reached the valley, yet the cairn remains unnamed and unclassified. It sits halfway up the western ridge, half buried in heather and scree, with no marker except the shape of the stones beneath the soil. What is known is that the ridge dropped into a narrow gap between two higher peaks, and the gap aligned with the star that rose in the north at midwinter. The cairn may have marked that line, but no human hand has been found to build it.

There is a roughly circular cairn on the summit of a low hill within the centre of the valley. The surrounding landscape is visible from the site with the backdrop of the mountains circling the area. The cairn is located on the watershed between the Caol and the Owroe River to the east. The cairn of stone is between 10-12m wide and consisted of large to medium boulders between 0.20-0.5m in diameter. The cairn rises 0.75m above the general topography. It appears to be further surrounded or set within an oval earthwork extending 5m to the north, east and west of the cairn and up to 20m to the south. A number of stones are set at angles 5m to the south of the stone cairn at the southern edge of the monument and this may be part of a robbed out cist or chamber. The above description is derived from an archaeological assessment report for a proposed new forest at Toorsaleen, Co. Kerry. The report was compiled by Edmond O'Donovan & Associates in April 2014. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 April 2014

A roughly circular cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, is situated on a low hill in a central valley location, possibly serving as a ritual or funerary monument within a visually prominent landscape. Its type and wider significance remain unclassified due to lack of detailed archaeological investigation.

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