What is recorded here

Cairn is a circular stone mound twelve metres wide in level pasture above a southern stream valley, its centre hollowed where people removed rocks. It stands thirty metres from a ring-barrow, suggesting a busy burial landscape rather than a lonely marker. The missing stones may have gone toward a wall, a road or a forgotten bargain, carrying part of the dead into ordinary life.

In level pasture, overlooking stream valley to S. Circular cairn (diam. 12m; max. H 1.3m; min. H 0.65m) with dip in centre where stones have been removed. Ring-barrow (11844) c. 30m to E. Possibly 'levelled tumulus' in M. Cronin's referred to by Bowman (1934, 466). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A Bronze Age cairn, likely a funerary monument, associated with a ring-barrow; such sites are significant for understanding burial practices and settlement patterns in the early historic landscape of the region.

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