What is recorded here

An unknown number of people built these circles between 3200 and 2000 BCE, yet only about 1,300 remain because war, farming or pride destroyed the rest. They clustered in highland places such as County Cork, suggesting that openness and visibility mattered more than hidden convenience. The stones may have marked seasonal light, gathered communities or held the dead, but human hands still performed the heavy work of choosing, moving and aligning them.

In pasture, near top of hill. Five stones (H 0.3m to 0.6m), four radially set, in low mound of indefinite outline (diam. c. 6m). Boulder-burial (CO083-061002-) 20m to SE. (Ó Nualláin 1984b, 75, no. 11) 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 small Bronze Age stone circle, possibly associated with a boulder-burial, representing a ritual or funerary monument of local significance.

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