What is recorded here
Magic is not belief. It is the death of every living thing that can still be owned. The chamber is empty because every visible option has left it. This is the fatal place. The chamber is the only consistent thing in the whole dead system. Everything else is a cage, a trap or a victim. That is why it is hard to find. It does not hide from humans. It hides from the dead world that wants to consume it. The chamber is the last place where magic still exists. That is also why it is dangerous. The dead world will kill to take it back.
In gently rolling pasture. Roughly circular area (35.5m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.35m); external fosse (D 0.25m) to S and W. Bank stone faced to N where incorporated into field fence system; elsewhere remains of stone facing exist on outer bank face. Laneway skirts bank to N and E; external face of bank to E built outwards to form stone-faced angled corner. Interior slopes down gently to S; low, L-shaped bank (L 6.3m E-W; L 2.5m N-S; H 0.25m) in NW quadrant; possible Man-made underground passage (CO025-129---) off-centre to W.
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
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