What is recorded here

Half a metre wide and three metres long, the stone ridge lies flat under the bog like a forgotten rib. It may have been a boundary marker, a dead man's tomb or a child's game of stacking rocks before the swamp swallowed it. The trackway cut through the moss and revealed the ridge, proving the land remembers what people forget.

Described by Quinn and Carroll (2010) as ‘a cairn (pre-bog). Short length of stone cairn protruding from beneath a section of bog to the S of an existing trackway. Exposed possibly during construction of trackway. Located to S of Walls (3, 4 and 6). Orientated E/W. Visible as low mound of stone protruding from under bog section. Length 2.97m, Width 0.4m, Height 0.25m.' Quinn, A and Carroll, M (2010) ‘Archaeological, Architectural and Cultural Heritage Assessment for a Proposed Wind Farm at Doonens Co. Cork’, Unpublished report, Tobar Archaeological Services. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 21 August 2013

A pre-bog cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age; its partial exposure during trackway construction suggests potential for further archaeological investigation.

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