Cromlech (Site of)

In pasture, atop hillock. Levelled; Windele (Borlase 1897, 14) gives brief description and sketch of tumulus containing 'a large cist in the centre'. According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, uncovered large stone cist [CO077-009002-] 'eight feet square', containing large quantities of human bones; smaller 'stone chest' in same mound also contained two human skeletons and a third (18 inches square) contained 'slack lime'; cists broken up but bones 'replaced in their old sites'. One of three tumuli in same townland; one in same field (CO077-010---) 150m to ENE, second (CO077-00801-) lies 350m to SW. 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

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of a central stone cist, indicating ritual burial practices and the site's role in early communal religious or social activities.