What is recorded here

Killaha West holds a trapezoidal stone, metre-high and north-south aligned, watching Kenmare Bay from the lower slopes of Killaha Mountain. Eighty metres away, another shape may answer it, though grass and time have blurred the second claim. Together they mark a place where people once measured distance, prayed, or simply remembered the sea.

In rough pasture, on a level area on the NW-facing lower slopes of Killaha Mountain, overlooking Kenmare Bay to the N. This standing stone (1.65m x 0.6m; H 1.05m) is irregular in shape and roughly trapezoidal in plan and is orientated N-S. There is a possible standing stone-pair (KE093-046----) c. 80m to the SE. 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

Probably dating to the Bronze Age, this standing stone may have had a ritual or territorial function, possibly linked to landscape orientation or early farming activity in the area. No specific folklore or detailed local tradition is recorded for this site.

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