What is recorded here

Oughtihery holds forgotten long cists where human bones still lie beneath thin soil. Windele wrote about them in 1853, describing stone-lined graves stretched northwest to southeast beside an early church enclosure. They vanished from modern sight, but the dead did not; they wait patience-deep under the field, close enough to touch if someone finally looked in the right place.

Windele (1853, 231) mentioned several possible long cists which he describes as 'field burial[s]', covered and lined with stone and orientated NW-SE and which adjoined possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (9207).'Their upper outlines approach very near the surface of the soil' and they contained skulls and bones (ibid.). Exact location not known. Windele also mentions seven or eight similar burials at 'Cahirachladdig, in the same parish'; location of this also remains unknown. 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

Early medieval long cist; associated with an early ecclesiastical site. Its orientation and construction suggest Christian burial practices in a monastic or settlement context.

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