Remains of ‘lost’ bronze age tomb discovered in County Kerry in Ireland

Billy Mag Fhloinn, a folklorist who is part of an archaeological mapping project, recently visited and filmed the site.

When Georgiana, Lady Chatterton made the sketch of the 'lost' Sun Altar monument on top of a hill on the Dingle Peninsula, she noted the irony of drawing it in 'thick, penetrating' rain

The remnants of a bronze age tomb once thought to have been destroyed and lost to history have been discovered in County Kerry on the Atlantic coast of Ireland.

The tomb, known locally as Altóir na Gréine – the sun altar – stood for approximately 4,000 years on a hill outside the village of Ballyferriter on the Dingle peninsula before vanishing in the mid-19th century.