What is recorded here

Three boulder-burials slept in flat pasture beside the Owenbaun River, now vanished beneath grass and forgetting. A lone standing stone still marks the boundary sixty metres north, watching the empty field where human hands once stacked weight against death. The land keeps its secret, but the witness remains.

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 funerary monument, possibly part of a group of three. Its significance lies in representing a rare and early form of burial practice in the region, reflecting prehistoric funerary traditions.

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