What is recorded here

Carns or Leachts is an unclassified cairn hidden on the west side of the Mucknagh stream valley in County Cork. It resisted mapping until 1936, when surveyors drew a fifteen-metre rectangular boundary around what overgrowth still conceals. The place may have marked a burial, a boundary or a forgotten warning, but the valley has kept that answer from every human who approached it.

Not marked on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps. Marked on 1936 OS 6-inch map as rectangular area (15m E-W x 5m N-S) defined by broken line. On W side of Mucknagh stream valley. Area inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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