What is recorded here

That is the kind of edge where human life stopped being optional. The chamber is small enough to judge at a glance, large enough to hide a whole lost world, and its wedge shape still points across the mountain like a promise nobody finished. Stand beside it and the pasture stops being empty. It becomes a room where visibility, memory and consequence are still negotiating.

In rough mountain pasture, on a terrace on the S-facing upper slopes of Knocknagorraveela. A waterlogged wedge-shaped chamber (L 4m; Wth 2.6m at the WSW end; Wth 1.6m at the ENE end) aligned WSW-ENE and largely enveloped in blanket bog. The tops of three sidestones are visible on the S side while those on the N side are covered with peat. An inclined slab exposed at the ENE may be a fallen out backstone. A small part of the roofstone is exposed WSW of the chamber and overlies the N of two transversely set jamb-like stones forming an entrance. 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

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its waterlogged chamber may have preserved organic remains, offering potential insights into funerary practices and environmental conditions of the period.

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