What is recorded here

Knockbrack Mountain still holds two stones, one twenty-five metres behind the other, as if people marked a line of sight across the pasture before written memory began. The nearer stone rises ninety-five centimetres, rectangular in plan but triangular in section, tapering to an uneven top that catches rain and wind from the NE-facing slope. It stands fifteen metres above a tributary of the Glashievhee stream, small enough to be overlooked yet deliberate enough to have been carried, set and left watching the valley.

In mountain pasture, 15m N of a tributary of the Glashievhee stream, on the lower NE-facing slopes of Knockbrack Mountain. This standing stone (1.25m x 0.35m; H 0.95m) is rectangular in plan and triangular in section. It tapers to an uneven top and is orientated NNW-SSE. There is another standing stone (KE094-064001-) 25m to the SW. 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

Likely dates to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, based on its form and context. Its purpose may have been ritual or territorial, though no inscriptions or associated monuments provide further clues.

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