What is recorded here

Indicated is a fifteen-stone circle on the southwest edge of Kenmare, where a flat axial slab faces a central boulder burial. The stones are modest, some fallen, yet they still draw a line around the dead and the living sky. People may have walked that pasture for centuries, marking time or remembering names now lost. The circle does not need grandeur to hold attention; it waits patiently for someone to stop and see what it preserves.

In level pasture, on the SW outskirts of Kenmare town. A subcircular area (17m E-W; 15m N-S) is enclosed by fifteen stones (L 0.8-1.6m; T 0.2-0.7m; H 0.3-1.2m), two of which are prostrate. The axial stone is the lowest and is a regular flat-topped slab contrasting with most of the other stones, which with one or two exceptions, are of boulder type. A boulder-burial (KE093-032002-) occupies the centre of the stone circle. (Ó Nualláin 1984a, 26, no. 41) To see a 3D model of this monument visit: https://skfb.ly/6U7OF 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 monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 6/1970).

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