What is recorded here

Cairn, a flat-topped Neolithic structure in County Cork built around 3000 BC, still stands nineteen metres across and two metres high. Tradition holds that people gathered there for midwinter festivals, perhaps watching the shortest darkness turn back into light. You can still walk past its stones and imagine that old crowd waiting for the sun to return.

On gravel knoll on SW slopes Maughanaclea Hills. Roughly oval cairn (H 0.9m; 0.7m E-W; 3.4m N-S). Graveyard (CO106-01201-) nearby to E. 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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