What is recorded here

Nine radial stones still mark the edge of a seven-metre cairn in rough Kerry pasture, with four inner stones hinting at a hidden ring. It stands a kilometre south of the Roughty River, recorded as an arc of stones on the 1846 map and recognised as a radial-stone cairn. A separate standing stone waits three metres north, while another five-stone circle lies two hundred metres away. The landscape has kept its shape, even if human memory has thinned around it.

In rough pasture, in an area of undulating moorland c. 1km S of the Roughty River. Indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as an arc of stones (C c. 30m) SSE-N, abutting a NW-SE field boundary. Nine radially set stones (max. L 0.6m; H c. 0.5m) mark the edge of a cairn (diam. 7m; H 1m). The surface of the cairn is largely exposed and consists of stones up to 1.5m in maximum dimensions. Four stones towards the middle of the cairn suggest the possibility of an inner ring. An accompanying standing stone (KE093-025003-) is c. 3m to the N. A five-stone circle (KE093-087----) lies c. 200m to the NNE. (Ó Nualláin 1984b, 77-8) 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

A Neolithic stone circle, dating to the third millennium BCE. Its alignment and positioning suggest ritual or ceremonial significance, typical of Neolithic monuments in the British Isles.

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