What is recorded here

Cairn is a radial-stone chamber in County Cork where fourteen stones still stick through a shallow circular mound. A cup-marked stone sits atop the heap while another standing stone waits ten metres to the northwest. The geometry suggests people placed rocks deliberately rather than dumping them in a pile.

On level terrace on N slope of low hill in rolling pasture. Fourteen radially-set stones protrude between 0.1m and 0.4m above the surface of a subcircular cairn (diam. c. 10m; H 0.5m). Cup-marked stone (CO143-097---) atop cairn. Cairn (CO143-002001-) with standing stone (CO143-00202-) at N edge, 10m to NW. (Roberts 1988, Ch. 2, no. 6) 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

Radial-stone cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its radial arrangement and presence of a cup-marked stone suggest ritual or ceremonial significance, typical of prehistoric funerary or ritual monuments in Ireland.

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