What is recorded here

Four small flagstones stood on end at the very top of Mullach a Radhairc, marking famine graves where human suffering touched the sky. Bowman recorded them in 1934, but the burial ground has vanished from local memory and modern surveys. The hilltop likely held dead bodies during a time of mass starvation, yet even the stones have disappeared or been forgotten. Reanahoun keeps an absent grave, proving that landscape and memory can erase each other without warning.

Bowman (1934, 89-90) recorded four famine graves on hillside of Mullach a Radhairc where 'four small flagstones standing on end mark the sites'. According to local information, they were 'at the very top of the hill'. Burial ground not located. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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