What is recorded here

Dolmen is a sub-megalithic cist in flat County Cork pasture, holding a 1.2m chamber beneath one roofstone. Local tradition claims people once crowded around it for mass, turning dead men’s architecture into a living altar. The stones never resisted that change. They simply waited for humans to keep inventing reasons to gather beneath them.

In flat pasture, some 600m WSW of multiple-cist cairn (CO027-069---). Sub-megalithic cist comprising open chamber (1.2m L; Wth 0.65m; H 0.55m), aligned E-W, represented by single N and S sidestones with inset backstone at E. Chamber covered by single roofstone. Tradition of monument being used as a mass rock. (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 128) 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

Portal dolmen; likely Neolithic in date. This sub-megalithic cist represents a simplified form of megalithic tomb construction, reflecting regional variations in burial practices during the Neolithic period.

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