
What is recorded here
Crusheennalanniv is a hidden burial ground on a West Cork roadside, remembered only through the absence of a single visible stone or marker. The land may have swallowed the bodies of people whose names never reached the present, leaving behind a quiet debt the road still passes without acknowledging. Forgetting does not erase the dead; it merely redirects the memory into the soil beneath the wheels.
Roadside. 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.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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