What is recorded here

Skeagh Cairn stands as a Neolithic ring-cairn in County Cork, built around 3000 BC to mark midwinter festivals and human memory. Its flat top spans nineteen metres, while a second barrow waits twenty metres north, both buried in forest silence. People may have gathered there when darkness reached its deepest point, watching the sky turn and naming the change before light returned.

In rough grazing, on S-facing slope, c. 11m SE of cairn (7858). Dump-constructed ring of stones (diam. 7.7m N-S, 7.2m E-W; H 0.4m; Wth c. 3m) surrounding central flat area. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A ring-cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age. Its circular stone construction and central flat area suggest ritual or ceremonial use, common in prehistoric funerary or territorial contexts.

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