What is recorded here

Laghtnamna is a ruined cairn on Claragh Mountain, not a solid chamber. Broker measured a worn cone several feet high in 1937, while the modern site holds only a low elongated pile of small stones. The lost woman may have been real or invented, but the road and mountain made her story because they remembered her without asking permission.

On lower SW slopes of Claragh Mountain. Low elongated pile (L 4m; H 0.4m) of small stones (possible field clearance) now marks position of cairn. According to Broker (1937, 55) 'The leacht is 7 or 8 feet in diameter atbase and is 4 or 5 feet high, its shape being a worn cone'. It was thought to be the burial place of a travelling woman murdered at this spot; all who passed by cast a stone on her "carn". This custom had died out in Broker's time. 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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