What is recorded here

Eight cairns are scattered across the bog below Miskish Mountain, but this one wears a green skin of heather and gorse. It is a small circular mound, 3.6m across and 0.7m high, with stones exposed only at the north edge. The others sit ten or eleven metres away, close enough to touch if the brush were cleared. Together they mark a forgotten boundary, a burial place or a game played by people who no longer have names.

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-; CO114-081002-; CO114-081003-; CO114-081004-; CO114-081005-; CO114-081007-; CO114-081008-). A sod-covered circular cairn (diam. 3.6m; H 0.7m) whose stony material is exposed at the N. The cairn is set in bog and covered with gorse and heather. One of the other cairns (CO114-081005-) is c. 11m to the SSW and another (CO114-081007-) is 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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