What is recorded here

Cairn is a flat-topped Neolithic stone circle in Skeagh, County Cork, built around 3000 BC. It measures nineteen metres across and two metres high, with another ring barrow twenty metres north. People may have gathered there for midwinter festivals, watching the shortest darkness turn back toward light. Five thousand years later the stones still hold that rhythm, waiting for somebody to remember it.

Described by Quinn and Carroll (2010) as ‘a cairn located in portion of cut-away bog (similar to cairns 1 and 7). Orientated N/S and consists of low mound of medium to large sized stones. Length 3.5m, Width 1.9m, Height 0.2m.' Quinn, A and Carroll, M (2010) ‘Archaeological, Architectural and Cultural Heritage Assessment for a Proposed Wind Farm at Doonens Co. Cork’, Unpublished report, Tobar Archaeological Services. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 21 August 2013

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