What is recorded here

Graves is a wedge tomb in County Cork, Ireland. It contains two chambers set four metres apart inside a narrow defile near the Cummer River headwaters. Each chamber holds a short stone gallery, one and a half metres long, with side stones, a back stone and a roof slab above. The compact shape suggests people built a narrow passage for burial rather than a broad hall, leaving a small dark space where the dead may have rested beneath the hill.

S tomb of pair (CO082-084002-), 4m apart, on floor of short narrow defile near headwaters of Cummer River valley. Comprises gallery (L 1.4m; Wth 0.9m at W, 1m at E end) aligned NW-SE, represented by single sidestone to N and S, and backstone at E end; covered by roofstone. Traces of low mound to W and S. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 22, Co. 31) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period. Its alignment and positioning suggest ritual or ceremonial significance, typical of passage tomb traditions in the region.

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