Burial in Moneen (fermoy By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Moneen holds a cremated body inside a narrow pit beside ancient ring barrows. Two decorated Food Vessel Bowls accompanied the bones, suggesting the dead person still received sustenance or honour after death. A large slab nearby may have marked the burial before later people cut around it. The place preserves a small violent clarity: love, memory and change all overlapped in the same soil.

Adjacent to SW side of ring barrow (CO027-159---) and multiple-cist cairn (CO027-069---). Excavated by O'Kelly (1952, 121-158) who described circular pit (diam. c. 3ft; D 1ft 6in) containing cremated burial with two Food Vessel Bowls (Brindley et al. 1987/8, 15, fig 2); both 'decorated with impressed ornament which includes comb and false relief ornament' (O Riordain and Waddell 1993, 95). Slab (4ft 6in x 5ft; Th 1ft 6in) found adjacent probably covered pit; this was disturbed when fosse extension dug to enclose urn burial (CO027-161---). 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

A Neolithic cremation burial, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, associated with a ring barrow and multiple-cist cairn; significant as part of a broader funerary landscape indicating early ritual and burial practices in the region.

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