Callaheen Burial Ground (Disused) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Callaheen Burial Ground sits hidden in heath on a ridge crest in County Cork, marked on an 1842 survey but now lost beneath heavy overgrowth. The land has kept its dead since before human memory, yet the living forgot the path. What the ridge swallowed, it still holds.

In heath on crest of ridge. Marked 'Calaheen burial Ground on OS 6-inch map (1842). Site inaccessible owing to heavy overgrowth. 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

Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in its association with early ceremonial and burial practices in the prehistoric landscape of the region.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.