What is recorded here

Kilnacranagh West holds a broken ring where fourteen stones still stick through the earth like teeth in a gum. They point inward along the south-east, perhaps marking the exact moment the dead stopped belonging to the living. A long flat slab lies nearby, waiting to be carried somewhere or remembered somewhere else. The pasture moves above them, but the angle of each stone remains steady, keeping the shape of a choice made before anyone could explain it.

In area of rough pasture with some outcropping rock. Penanular bank of earth and stone (H c. 0.5m; Wth 1.5m - 4m). Open to W where it measures 18m N-S. Fourteen radially-set stones protrude 0.1m - 0.8m above surface of bank along the SE and appear to form two concentric lines. Interior of monument level. Prostrate slab (L 1.6m; 0.75m x 0.15m) lies inside bank at E. Locally known as burial ground, and tradition that stones were taken from it to build house. Cup-marked stone (CO109-075---) in interior. 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

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