What is recorded here

Mushershabeg Mountain still stands tall on the west coast, but the quiet cairn at its foot belongs to a much older world. Ten stones in a shallow circle, a smaller ring and two uprights nearby, all set into open bogland, suggest a place where people marked time, loss or prayer long before written records. The mountain gives the cairn grandeur; the cairn gives the mountain memory.

On level patch of bogland, on NW slopes of Musherabeg Mountain. Ten radially-set stones (H 0.2m to 0.4m) mark perimeter of cairn (H c. 0.4m; diam. 3.5m). Five-stone circle (6469) and pair of standing stones (6558) 7m to W. (O Nualláin 1984b, 77, no. 14). National monument no. 420. 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: 12 December 2022 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 166/1941).

Radial-stone cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its radial layout and association with nearby stone circles suggest ritual or funerary significance, typical of megalithic traditions in the region.

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