What is recorded here

Eight stone rings are scattered across the bog below Miskish Mountain, but this is the largest and best preserved. It is a simple circle of rocks, four metres wide and half a metre high, with gorse growing through the gaps. The other cairns are smaller and harder to see, hidden under grass and soil. This one still stands out because someone built it taller and wider than the rest.

In rough upland grazing, on blanket bog, on a S-facing slope on the S foothills of Miskish Mountain. One of a cluster of eight cairns (CO114-081001-; CO114-081003-; CO114-081004-; CO114-081005-; CO114-081006-; CO114-081007-; CO114-081008-). This gorse- and sod-covered subcircular cairn (diam. 4m) protrudes (H 0.55m) above the present ground level. One of the other cairns (CO114-081001-) lies c. 13m to the NW and another (CO114-081003-) lies c. 10m to the NE. 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 Bronze Age cairn; part of a cluster indicating ritual or funerary activity in a upland landscape.

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