Megalithic structure in Coomdeeween — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Five stones remain at the head of a narrow Kerry valley, two forming a chamber side and one marking an end, while a collapsed roof stone lies askew across them. The valley opens west across bog to Bentee mountain, giving the ruin a wide horizon despite its small size. A sod-covered pile of rocks abuts the north and east, perhaps the last of a cairn that once framed the chamber. Whatever hands placed them worked in poor land, yet they aligned the dead or the living toward the distant mountain.

This ruined monument is located in poor land at the head of a small valley, between Keelnagore and Knockavahaun mountains. The valley opens to W and provides an extensive view across tracts of bog to Bentee mountain. Five stones survive, two of which may be identified as the side-stones of a chamber, while one probably served as an end-stone. On average these stones measure .72m high, 1.1m long and .2m wide. The S side-stone and the end-stone have collapsed inwardly, and lying askew on top of the former is the fourth stone, .9m .35m, which may originally have served as a roof-stone. The fifth stone lies just to the W of this arrangement, but may not have formed part of the original structure. Abutting the perimeter of the structure to N and E is a sod-covered pile of small stones and rocks, which may be the remnants of a cairn. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 86. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

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