What is recorded here

Mearogafin is a wedge tomb on the south slopes of Knockaunabipee, where a narrow stone gallery cuts through an oval mound in open moorland. Its roofstones still overlap above a chamber that narrows and lowers toward the east, suggesting people built it to be entered, oriented, and remembered rather than merely buried. The Shehy Mountains watch the place, and the small chamber may have held more than bone: perhaps name, season, argument, warning, or love.

On platform in open moorland, on S slopes of Knockaunabipee at E end Shehy Mountains. Wedge-shaped gallery (L 2.75m; Wth 1.1m at W end, 0.6m at E) open to the W, sides each represented by three sidestones, inset backstone at E end. Covered by two overlapping roofstones, surrounded by closely-set outer-walling. Gallery decreases in height W->E, incorporated in ovalmound, 9m E-W; 7m N-S. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 27, no. 38) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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)

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its location on a prominent moorland platform suggests ceremonial or ritual significance in the prehistoric landscape.

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