What is recorded here

Half-buried under bog and grass, the broken ring of stones still marks a place where people gathered to burn water, bury the dead, and watch the sky. The cairn sits beside ancient cooking mounds and a circle of upright stones, suggesting a whole landscape of ritual rather than a single forgotten heap. Trod paths and scattered rocks hint that curiosity has always pulled stones from the ring, yet the shape endures because the mountain itself seems to hold it in place.

In rough pasture, on a bog-covered terrace, on the S-facing rocky slopes of Sugarloaf Mountain. The Beara Way walking route is c. 100m to the S. The remains of a circular cairn (6.5m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.8m) are partially sod-covered and feature intermittent traces of a kerb N-SW. Disturbance of the cairn material has resulted in depressions on the surface at the S and E as well as a spread of stones extending outwards at the NW. Two burnt mounds (CO104-027004-; CO104-027005-) and a fulacht fia (CO104-027006-) are c. 50m to the W, c. 60m to the W and c. 90m to the WSW, respectively. There is a multiple-stone circle (CO104-027001-) and a boulder burial (CO104-027002-) c. 50m to the S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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