What is recorded here

One of four openings cut into a limestone quarry-face in County Cork, the cave holds a thin layer of Early Christian life buried beneath ordinary rock. Coleman excavated it in 1942 and found iron, bronze, worked bone, fish shells, charcoal and animal bones, suggesting people kept livestock, hunted, cooked and crafted inside rather than merely passing through. The cave does not perform grandeur; it preserves the small repeated days that built a region before monastic stones and ring forts claimed the landscape.

In NW quadrant ringfort (CO109-02601-). No visible surface trace. 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

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