What is recorded here

Half a metre high and nearly five metres across, the cairn sits on a peaty terrace where moor grass claims back what people once placed there. It is not alone. A five-stone circle and a standing stone wait farther down the slope, as if the ridge were marked in stages rather than named. Maybe someone walked that line at sunrise, dropping stones until the land answered back.

In rough hill grazing, on a peaty terrace, on the SE-facing slopes of a ridge. A circular cairn (diam. 4.8m; H 0.5m), comprising stones of varying sizes, is partially obscured by moor grass. The cairn features traces of a kerb along its perimeter. A five-stone circle (CO048-097001-) is c. 40m to the SE and a standing stone (CO048-097002-) is c. 50m to the SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

A Neolithic cairn; its significance lies in representing early funerary or ritual practices in the region.

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