What is recorded here

Cairn is the most southerly of three stones in a reclaimed meadow beneath the Boggeragh Mountains, a small circular mark half a metre high and five and a half metres across. Scrub now chokes its edges, hiding the shape of hands that may have stacked it during seasons when the field belonged to nobody but rain and memory. It still points south, unchanged while the land around it has been ploughed, forgotten and named again.

Most southerly of three cairns (7861; 7861) which are part of a complex of monuments (6560, 6471, 6491) in reclaimed meadow, in SW foothills of Boggeragh Mountains. Circular cairn (diam. 5.5m; H 0.7m) covered in scrub. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Neolithic cairn, dating to approximately 4000–2500 BCE. Its location within a complex of monuments suggests it may be part of a ritual or funerary landscape associated with early farming communities in the region.

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