What is recorded here

Kinneigh holds an anomalous stone group where a slab leans on an upright like a mouth waiting to speak. Fifty metres from the standing pair, this cist-like shadow refuses easy definition, inviting wonder rather than certainty. The stones may have marked a threshold between worlds, a place where the living visited the dead or the dead visited the living. Such ambiguity is not a flaw but a gift, reminding us that some truths resist measurement and must be felt in the bones before they are understood by the mind.

On the level shoulder of a gentle W-facing slope. Some 50m SW of a standing stone pair (CO094-089----) is a 'cist-like' feature represented by a slab which appears to be supported by an upright. The nature of this feature is unclear. It has been included in the Inventory with the standing stone pair (inv. no. 194). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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