What is recorded here

Indicated is a burial ground in County Cork where human bones still surface during tillage, proving the soil remembers what maps forget. The adjacent field carries the name Pairc na Croiche, linking death to gallows rather than peaceful rest. A slight rise marks the spot on pasture land, waiting for rain or plough to reveal its hidden occupants again.

In pasture, c. 100m to NE of moated site (9387). Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular area (c. 60m NW-SE) defined by broken line. Slight rise visible in area of site. According to Hartnett (1939, 279), field to E locally known as 'Pairc na Croiche (the field of the gallows)...and from time to time human bones are unearthed here during tillage operations'. 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

Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 3700–3000 BCE). Its association with a nearby moated site suggests potential continuity of ritual or territorial use of the landscape over millennia.

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