What is recorded here

Three boulder-burials slept in flat pasture near the Owenbaun River, according to an 1841 description. The earth has swallowed their shape, leaving only a standing stone sixty metres north to mark the forgotten boundary. What remains is a ghost of a chamber, buried beneath grass and time, waiting for someone to imagine the dead inside.

In flat pasture, on SW side of Owenbaun River valley near NW foot of Musheramore Mountain. Description in OS Name Book (1841) suggests three boulder-burials. No visible surface trace survives. Standing stone (6802) in townland boundary fence c. 60m to N of site. (O Nualláin 1978, 83-4, no. 2, Lackadotia) 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

Boulder-burial in Mushera is likely a Bronze Age burial monument, possibly part of a group of three, associated with standing stone 6802. Its significance lies in its potential to contribute to understanding regional burial practices and megalithic traditions in the area.

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