Yet this unremarkable scatter on a south-east facing slope in Kerry was, at some point, the home of a carved triangular cross-slab that is now held in the National Museum of Ireland, a long way from the cashel it came from.

A cashel is a stone-walled ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement common in early medieval Ireland, typically built to protect a farmstead and its livestock. This one, roughly 20 metres in internal diameter, is recorded as a circular enclosure on Ordnance Survey maps, though a field wall running roughly north-north-west to south-south-east now bisects what remains of it. The antiquarian John Windele, writing in 1848, attributed the triangular cross-slab to this site. R. A. S. Macalister, visiting in 1899, recorded something stranger still inside the cashel: a feature he described as a grave-like enclosure, formed by two parallel rows of stones set on edge, with a third row incorporated into the southern wall of the cashel itself. Whether it was a grave, a souterrain element, or something else entirely, it is no longer visible. The interior has yielded that detail back to obscurity, and the cairn of stones on the eastern side of the field wall, measuring roughly 8 by 10 metres and standing 2 metres high, may be nothing more than cleared rubble accumulated over centuries of agricultural use.