What is recorded here

Barrow is a low oval mound in County Cork pasture where a farmer levelling the soil in 1858 uncovered two skeletons beneath a large cover stone. The buried chamber still holds three exposed stone sides forming a square, waiting beneath grass and foot traffic. Two other mounds sit nearby, suggesting a small cluster of graves rather than a lonely exception. The dead may have been relatives, travellers or outsiders, but the stones preserved them while the landscape forgot their names.

In pasture, to N of Castlemartyr to Killeagh road. Low, oval mound (6m N-S; 4m E-W; max. H 0.5m); stones partially exposed in SE quadrant, appear to form three sides of square (1.2m x 1.2m). According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, discovered cist (CO077-008002-) with larger cover stone containing two human skeletons. One of three tumuli in same townland; other two (CO077-00901-; CO077-010---) c. 400m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Mound barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its partial stone setting suggests a ritual or funerary function, typical of burial monuments in this period.

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