What is recorded here

Penitential Station occupies a quiet pasture on Spratt hill, where a flat quartz cover stone rests above buried chamber and a grassy mound marks the edge of memory. The chamber is small enough to enter with both hands and breath, yet large enough to hold what a person must stop pretending. Nearby stones and a five-stone circle give the hill a shape like a room remembered through the skin. To walk there is not to solve antiquity but to be answered by it.

In pasture atop terrace on SE-facing slope of Spratt hill overlooking Coomnageragh river. Two support stones visible beneath flat topped, quartz cover-stone (1.4m x 1.4m; T 0.8m); surrounded by low grass-covered mound (diam. 4.2m; H 0.15m). Two standing stones and cairn to NE are used as penetential stations (CO118-071002-). Five-stone circle (CO118-073001-) 200m to E. (Roberts, 1988, Ch. 5, no. 3). 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 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

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