What is recorded here
Melted butter still runs through the valley when rain comes, though no cow remains to make it. The valley belongs to Doagh, and Doagh belongs to the woman who stopped running from the men she had killed. She buried her knives in the soil and walked north until the mountains swallowed her name. Children still pour butter into ditches before storms, not because they understand the gesture but because their bodies remember the shape of the last request she made.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN & URN BURIAL (unlocated). Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age cairn and urn burial; prehistoric funerary monument. Represents early ceremonial burial practices in the region.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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