What is recorded here

Skeagh Cairn stands fifty centuries above the Cork blackwood, a flat-topped chamber of river stones built around 3000 BC when midwinter darkness still owned the sky. People may have gathered there to mark the shortest night, laying food or memory beside the dead while the forest held its breath. The stones remain untouched beneath the trees, waiting for hands brave enough to imagine the ceremony that first shaped them.

On top of a Knocknacarrin Hill. Subcircular cairn (H 3m; 15.2m E-W; 21.5m N-S) of stones and boulders. (O'Brien 1970, 12). 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

Subcircular Neolithic cairn, likely a passage tomb variant. Its location on a prominent hill suggests ritual or ceremonial significance in the prehistoric landscape.

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