What is recorded here

Half a metre of stone pokes through the grass on the ridge above the Ouvane valley, small enough to sit inside yet large enough to mark the hill. People may have gathered there to watch weather come down the valley or to remember someone the land has stopped naming. The stones have not fallen, which means hands kept returning long after the names disappeared.

In rough hill grazing, on the summit of an E-W ridge, with a commanding view NW over the valley of the Ouvane River. A roughly circular cairn (6m E-W; 5m N-S; H 0.4m), which is constructed of stones of varying sizes, protrudes above the surface of grass-covered sod. Some stones are also exposed intermittently along the perimeter of the cairn. 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 roughly circular cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age, possibly serving as a burial or commemorative monument; its location on a prominent ridge suggests ritual or strategic significance.

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