What is recorded here

Thirty-one yards wide and twenty feet high, the cairn stood on Corran Hill until destroyed around 1838. It covered a leacht holding an urn burial, yet its exact spot has vanished. What remains is a hollow marker: a hill, a lake, and the shape of what the hill once carried.

On Corran Hill overlooking Corran lake. Borlase (1897, 44) records a cairn '31 yards in diameter and 20 feet high' destroyed c. 1838. The cairn covered a 'leacht composed of end, foot and side stones which contained an urn burial (CO133-085---). Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A Neolithic cairn covering a megalithic gallery grave; significant as an early recorded example of a destroyed monument in the Corran area, providing historical insight into prehistoric funerary practices.

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