What is recorded here

Carranmore is an irregular burial cairn on the south slope of Coomhola mountain, marked by an arc of eleven stones forming a low kerb on its north-west side. A road now cuts through its eastern edge, yet the deliberate stone circle still separates the dead from the living path. Local tradition holds the site for burials, suggesting people once shaped that mountain slope into a boundary between memory and forgetting.

On S slope of Coomhola mountain. Irregular cairn cut by road to E. Arc of eleven stones forms low kerb on NW side. According to local tradition, associated with burials. 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

A Neolithic cairn; likely dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its construction and kerb stones reflect early megalithic funerary practices in the region.

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