Burial ground in Baltimore — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No visible chamber connects the two rows, yet the gap between them is the smallest possible distance across which the dead can still be reached. The living row faces the sea and the dead row faces the land, not each other, because the gap is the relationship and the stones are only its witnesses.

In rough pasture, in a hollow which slopes down to the W to the edge of a rocky inlet in Baltimore harbour. Known locally as a burial place, this roughly oval or boat-shaped area (c. 15m E-W; c. 4m N-S), overgrown with ferns, is defined by 29 upright stone slabs and by six recumbent stones. The N side is comprised of 13 stones (max. L 1.12m; max. H 0.7m) while the S side has 22 stones (max. L 1.19m; max. H 0.65m). Three stone slabs (H 0.5m), aligned N-S, stand in the western third of the interior and may be grave-markers. The ground slopes up from the exterior of the N side and slopes down from the S side. (Snodgrass 2004, 109-12). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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