What is recorded here

Cairn occupies a sunny pasture slope in County Cork, forming a low oval mound of stones beside a straight bank faced with three large slabs. Local tradition claims the hollow interior holds dead people, transforming ordinary rocks into a chamber where forgotten lives still sleep. The structure remains unclassified, denying modern certainty while preserving the older human belief that the ground must mark what it swallows.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Low subcircular mound of stones (7.35m N-S; 9m E-W) with low, straight, earth and stone bank (L c. 3m; max. Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) defining N side, faced with three large slabs along outer face. Hollow inside perimeter of cairn S->NW. Locally thought to be burial place. 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

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