What is recorded here

Skeagh Cairn stands fifty centuries above the Cork hills, its flat top still catching winter light. Built around 3000 BC, the broad stone mound may have marked midwinter festivals when darkness reached its edge. A smaller ring barrow waits twenty metres north, as if keeping company with the larger shape. Together they preserve a world old enough to make human life feel both brief and at home.

In forestry, near summit of Knocknaskagh. Roughly circular cairn (15m E-W; 14m N-S; H 2.2m) with steep sides and flat top. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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