What is recorded here

Five oval cairns mark a grassy platform beneath Dromore Hill, spacing three metres apart as if waiting for bodies rather than holding them. The smallest measure is forty-five centimetres high, low enough for boot traffic yet deliberate enough to exclude chance. People may have walked that ridge for centuries, reading death or direction in the stones while forgetting the names of everyone buried beneath them.

On a grassy platform, beneath a ridge, on the SW side of Dromore Hill. This is one of a group of five cairns (see CO119-117----; CO119-117001-; CO119-117003-; CO119-117004-) that are situated E-W along the platform. This is an oval-shaped cairn (3m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW; H 0.45m) situated 3m to the E of one of the other cairns (CO119-117003-) and 3.4m W of another (CO119-117001-). 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 Neolithic cairn, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE; part of a linear group of funerary or ritual monuments, indicating early communal land use and burial practices in the region.

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