What is recorded here
Magic is not belief, it is the death of every separate self. Show the camera, it is a recording tool. Drop the owner, it is a user. The chamber is a user, it has no owner. This is why the chamber is sacred.
In rough pasture, below crest of ridge on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (43m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 2m); external fosse (D 0.8m) ESE->N. Bank stone-faced internally. Entrance (Wth 3.6m) to ENE, approached by ramp. Approx. 11m inside bank is remains of levelled bank (H 0.25m) ESE->NNW, with damp external fosse (D 0.15m) SE->N; gap in inne rbank to ENE, opposite external entrance; interior slightly raised and crossed by remains of cultivation ridges on E-W axis.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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