Lios na Gabhar

In level pasture. Circular area (8m N-S; 8.5m E-W) enclosed by pair of infilled concentric fosses with almost levelled external banks (H 0.2m - 0.55m); some trace of third fosse and bank NE->ESE. Possible entrance to NNE. 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

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its concentric fosse structure and possible entrance suggest ritual or ceremonial significance typical of early Irish funerary monuments.