What is recorded here

In Meengorman, a woman's garden once held a buried fire. Around 1924, workers removed a seven-foot flagstone and surrounding stones, exposing burned bones beneath the earth. The cairn disappeared completely, leaving no mark except the memory that human flesh had turned to ash before the stones covered it.

Bowman (1934, 123) recorded cairn on Mrs Breslane's land; '...levelled. The surrounding stone circle, and a large flat stone, c. 7ft x 3ft were removed c. 1924. 'Burned bones' were found under the flagstone...There are now no remains of the original cairn'. Exact location not known. 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

Pit-burial in Meengorman is likely a funerary feature associated with the Bronze Age, possibly linked to a cairn and stone circle. Its significance lies in the evidence of cremation and burial practices in an otherwise unrecorded or lost monument.

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