What is recorded here

Skeagh Cairn is a Neolithic ring barrow in County Cork, built around 3000 BC and still standing beside a forest road. Its flat top spans nineteen metres, while a second barrow waits twenty metres north, as if the first had called a witness across the dark. People may have gathered there at midwinter, when shadow reached its longest and the living needed proof that the dead still remembered the shape of the world.

On top of a Currane Hill. O'Mahony (1961, 22-23) records a cairn covering a urn burial (CO109-039001-). No visible surface trace. 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

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