What is recorded here

Barrow is a vanished ring-barrow in Ballyvorisheen, County Cork, where a farmer broke through a burial cist before 1858 and exposed two skeletons beneath a large cover stone. The mound has since disappeared under agricultural work, leaving only a smooth hillock in pasture while two neighbouring barrows still mark the same low hillside. What is certain is that this was not a random deposit but a funerary landscape, likely Bronze Age, where several mounds clustered together and one of them gave up its dead before being erased.

According to Broker (1937, 50), on Eugene Barrett's land is 'fort 1-16th of acre. Fence gone'. No local knowledge of site; not located. 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

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