What is recorded here

Knockbrack still holds the ghost of a seventeen-stone circle, though no stone remains visible in the pasture. Windele measured sixteen uprights, perhaps seventeen, leaving a deliberate gap toward the northwest where someone may have stood watching the sky or waiting for another person to join the ring. The stones were low, broad and close together, forcing everyone inside to bend slightly and speak quietly. That missing circle is not an empty field; it is a room whose walls have been stolen, leaving behind the shape of the doorway and the memory of the people who walked through it.

In level pasture, c. 60m S of a stream at the foot of the W slope of Knockbrack. There are no visible remains of this stone circle. Windele (RIA MS 12.C.11, 293) described a circle 'of sixteen stones none of them higher than 4 feet [1.21m] and some of them four feet [1.21m] broad. The diameter is 13 paces or about 30 feet [9.1m]. It is open at the NW either as originally or by the removal of a stone…'. His accompanying sketch shows a possible axial stone. Ó Nualláin (1984a, 27, no. 42) noted that the circle was clearly of the Cork-Kerry type and 'probably consisted of seventeen orthostats enclosing an area about 9m in diameter'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.