What is recorded here

Cairn is a flat-topped stone monument in Skeagh, County Cork, built around 3000 BC when people still read the sky for meal and marriage. It stands nineteen metres across, two metres high, beside a smaller ring barrow, as if one voice had answered another across centuries. During midwinter darkness, candles may have moved around its edge while drums shook the forest floor. To walk past it now is to hear that old music waiting inside the stones.

On Stookeen - a bog-covered peak at N limit of Derrynasaggart Mountains. Low, circular, collapsed cairn (diam. c. 12m) with revetment on N side. Small high mound in centre from recent rebuilding. 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 low, circular, collapsed cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age; its significance is primarily local, with wider archaeological context not recorded.

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