What is recorded here

Skeagh Cairn is a flat-topped Neolithic monument in County Cork, built around 3000 BC and still standing beside a ring barrow twenty metres north. It measures nineteen metres across and two metres high, large enough to hold a midwinter gathering in darkness. People may have packed stone, lit fire and waited for the shortest day, while the forest closed around them like a living chamber.

In pasture, on crest of low hummock. Circular mound (H 0.8m; 8m E-W; 8m N-S) of loose stones. On E side, depression (6m N-S; 1.4m E-W; D 0.8m) running N-S, lined with slabs to E. Collapse from mound extends 2m to W. 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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