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What is recorded here

Six or seven radial stones still poke through a metre-high cairn on the Boggeragh plateau, surrounded by a shallow fosse and external bank. The completed circle measures eighteen metres across, facing the Foherish valley where shadow and memory still move. It is not a broken heap but a deliberate radial chamber, waiting for someone to walk its edge and remember what the stones were set to hold.

On small moorland plateau, at SW end of Boggeragh Mountains overlooking Foherish River valley to W. Six or seven radially-set stones (H 0.2m to 0.7m) exposed in cairn (H 1m; diam. c. 7.5m). Cairn surrounded by fosse (D c. 1m; Wth 2m to 3m) with external bank (Wth 2m to 3m). Overall diameter of monument is 18m. Five-stone circle (6471) and pair of standing stones (6560) stand 70m to NW; pair of standing stones (6561) and cairns (CO059-02304-; 05-; 07-) 150m to NE. (O Nualláin 1984b, 77, no. 15) 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

Portal dolmen; likely Neolithic in origin. Its radial stone arrangement and surrounding fosse suggest ritual or funerary significance, typical of megalithic traditions in the region.

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