What is recorded here

Marian and the unknown man walked the edge of the new cut at dawn. She dropped a stone, then another, until they stood like a small ring in the rain. She did not say who it was for, but she kept returning through every storm until the shape still stood. Years later people called it her marker and went past it with their hands in their pockets, certain the dead still belong beside the living.

On high hilltop in blanket bog. Circular collapsed cairn (diam. 8.5m; H c.1m) with remains of revetment of low upright stones on W side. Locally known as "caisealinn". 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

A circular collapsed cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, associated with funerary or ritual practices. Its location on a prominent hilltop suggests ceremonial or territorial significance.

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