What is recorded here

Mushera held three boulder-burials in flat pasture beside the Owenbaun River, though no stone or pit remains visible today. That absence does not diminish the place; it suggests the living landscape consumed the markers while memory retained the shape. The standing stone sixty metres north still watches the valley, perhaps guiding visitors back to the buried center.

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 small group of related burials. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of early funerary practices in the region, though its exact type and context remain poorly defined due to lack of visible remains.

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