Driving along between Mallow and Killarney, just as you are around the Cork/Kerry border, the Paps of Anu are a very prominent landscape feature. These are the Mother's breasts!
Each hill is the same height (give or take 4m, which doesn't mean much when your that big) and the cairn on the top of each just adds to the overall effect.
The foothills are teeming with standing stones to the north and the Paps are visible from many sites to the south. They aren't necessarily a key feature in a site's landscape, but they are there making their presence known. More time needs to be spent noting the relationship of these to mountains with the ancient monuments in the area (and some of the early Christian ones too) as they were clearly very important to the pre-Christian Irish.
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