What is recorded here

In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 10m) on 1842, 1903 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled early 1960s (UCC); surface uneven in area of site. According to Hartnett (1939, 84, Fig. XXI), circular raised platform enclosed by fosse with external earthen bank, of similar dimensions to ring-barrow (CO061-006001-), c. 5m to N; causewayed entrance to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A Neolithic ring-barrow; significant as a rare surviving example of early funerary monument in the region.

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