Burial Gd (Disused) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ten grave markers still stand inside a raised circular area five metres across, marking a disused burial ground in County Cork pasture. The southerly aspect catches warmth on stones that have watched grass grow and herds pass for generations. Whoever laid those marks believed the dead deserved a shaped place, not forgotten soil, and that belief still holds the circle steady beneath the turf.

In pasture with good southerly aspect. Raised circular area (H 0.4m; diam. 5m) with 10 grave markers in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its raised circular form and multiple grave markers suggest a communal burial function, typical of early Irish megalithic traditions.

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