What is recorded here

Cairn is a Neolithic ring barrow in Skeagh, County Cork, built around 3000 BC. It stands 19 metres across and 2 metres high, with another barrow twenty metres north. The stones have watched midwinter darkness for millennia, perhaps marking festivals when people gathered beneath a sky full of stars.

On level platform atop NE-SW ridge. Circular area (19.5m N-S; 19m E-W) defined by scatter of large rectangular stones (L c. 1m; 0.5m x 0.15m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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