What is recorded here

Cairn is a radial-stone structure on a gentle E-facing slope at the foot of a sharp SE ridge in County Cork, Ireland. Three radially set stones protrude through the peat-covered mound, while two larger slabs and smaller loose stones cluster in the eastern sector. The slight central hollow and asymmetric stone placement suggest deliberate human arrangement rather than natural collapse, though no surviving account explains who built it or why.

On a gentle E-facing slope, at the foot of a ridge that rises sharply to the SE. A roughly circular peat-covered cairn (diam. c. 6m; max. H 0.5m) with a slight central hollow. Three radially set stones, two in the E sector (0.4m x 0.07m; 0.3m x 0.2m) and one at W (0.7m x 0.1m), protrude though the cairn. A further two slabs, one (0.57m x 0.3m; T 0.15m) partially embedded and the other (0.8m x 0.5m; T 0.15m) lying on the surface, are located in the E sector of the cairn and, in addition, two small loose stones lie on top of the cairn. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Radial-stone cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its radial stone arrangement suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, common in funerary or ritual monuments of the period.

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