What is recorded here

Kealanine holds a rectangular cist barely two metres long, its slab walls rising half a metre above rough grazing on a south-east facing slope. The chamber points northeast to southwest, waiting for ghosts or forgetting the names of those it swallowed.

In rough grazing on SE-facing slope. Rectangular cist (L 1.75m; Wth 0.65m) lined with slabs; long axis NE-SW. Slabs are set into ground making burial free standing above ground level (H c.0.5m). 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

A rectangular cist, likely dating to the Early Christian or Bronze Age, used for single inhumation burial; its above-ground construction suggests a focus on visibility or preservation of the deceased.

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