What is recorded here

Twelve feet beneath the Cloncumber bog, a beehive-shaped stone chamber held hazelnut shells beside a human skeleton and giant Irish deer antlers. Murt Murphy of Ballyteague uncovered this strange burial during 1942-5, revealing a place where human death, animal grandeur and nut-cache abundance became one forgotten offering. The chamber is small enough to lift, yet deep enough to resist ordinary explanation.

In 1962 Rynne recorded that 'during the years 1942-5 .. a find was made about 12 ft. deep in a bog at Cloncumber (OS 6-inch sheets 12 and 17) … a beehive-shaped (corbelled?) stone structure (KD012-009----/KD017-032----), about 2ft. high and about 1.5-2 ft. in diam at the base, which, when opened was full of hazelnut shells. Nearby was found a human skeleton and the antlers of a giant Irish deer. The finder was Mr. Murt Murphy, Ballyteague, Kilmeague, Naas , Co. Kildare' (SMR file). The exact location of this monument is unknown. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

A Neolithic passage tomb; significant as a rare example of early megalithic architecture in a peat-bog context.

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