Cairn (Remains of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

A nine-metre-wide circle of stones sits in a green meadow below the Boggeragh Mountains, keeping a kerb-like edge that O Nualláin recognised in 1984. It is not isolated; two similar cairns join it a short distance south, forming a small chambered landscape beside standing stones. The stones do not command attention, but they repeat. That repetition suggests people returned to this place, marked it, and left it for others to remember.

In reclaimed meadow c. 3m to SSE of pair of standing stones (6561). Two similar cairns (7859, 7860) lie 20m and 17m to S respectively and form part of a complex of monuments (6560, 6471, 6491) in the SW foothills of Boggeragh Mountains. Circular cairn (diam. 9m; H 1m); according to O Nualláin (1984, 34), 'a number of stones near the perimeter appear to be part of a kerb'. 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

Neolithic cairn; part of a ritual or funerary complex. Its association with nearby standing stones and cairns suggests a significant prehistoric ceremonial landscape.

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