What is recorded here

Carn Uí Néid, the most southwesterly point of Ireland, is a brutal cliff where the Atlantic slams into rock and the sky drops into green water. In old story, Lugh chased Balor there, cut his head free, and set it on a stone that shattered under the weight of divine fury. The name still carries that violence: a cairn built on the place where a god broke the world open. Ships from America once saw this headland first, meaning the edge of Europe was not a line on a map but a sudden appearance out of distance.

In pasture, atop Slievecorran. Circular cairn (26m N-S; 25m E-W; H c. 1.5m) with trigonometrical station in centre; now diminished in size. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Circular cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age. Its location atop Slievecorran suggests a possible ceremonial or funerary function, though specific significance remains unrecorded.

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