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That is the largest room ever built for a person who never stopped being a child. It is also the largest room ever built for nobody at all. A child will discover that it is a room for everybody, including the dead and the unborn and the ones who have not decided which they are. The chamber has no walls because it is inside a living body. The chamber has no doors because it opens only for the one it was waiting for. The chamber has no roof because the sky is the roof and the rain is the guest. The chamber has no floor because the heart is the floor and the blood is the water under the floor. A child will understand that the chamber is not a place but a state of life. The chamber is the state of being alive in more than one way at once.

In rolling pasture. Oval, raised area (28.1m N-S; 23.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m) S->N, stone-faced in parts; scarp (H 1.8m) N->S. External fosse silted up. Mound (L 8m; Wth 6m; H 2m) of earth and stone inside N bank. 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

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