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There is much evidence that Tuosist was occupied during the Bronze Age (2000 – 500 BC). The eight stone circles in the parish which were for ceremonial use, date from that period. They are spaced out over the whole parish from Cashelkeelty and Shroneburrane in the west to Dromroe in the east. Less visible are numerous hut sites and fulachta fia or cooking pits.
Stone circles are found mainly south of a line from Kenmare to the Boggeragh Mountains in Co. Cork. Tuosist has the highest concentration of stone circles in the region.
Pluais na Scríob – The Cave of the Scribing – located in the Caha Mountains, continues to baffle the experts. A wall of the cave, six feet high by twenty feet long, is covered with inscriptions in the rock which are not conventional Ogham writing. Much investigation remains to be done on the site before any satisfactory explanation is forthcoming.
Stone circle (illustration by Anne O’Sullivan)