What is recorded here

Eight cairns are scattered across the bog beneath Miskish Mountain, but this one wears a thick coat of gorse and heather. It sits slightly apart from the others, half-swallowed by the land, as if the mountain itself is slowly pulling it back into the earth.

In rough upland grazing, on blanket bog, on a S-facing slope on the S foothills of Miskish Mountain. One of a cluster of eight cairns (CO114-081001-; CO114-081002-; CO114-081003-; CO114-081004-; CO114-081005-; CO114-081006-; CO114-081008-). This sod-covered circular cairn (diam. 4m; H 0.65m) is set in blanket bog. The cairn is covered with gorse and heather. One of the other cairns (CO114-081006-) is c. 10m to the SW and another (CO114-081008-) is c. 27m to the N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

A Neolithic cairn, likely a portal tomb or passage tomb variant; part of a cluster indicating a significant ritual or funerary landscape in the uplands. Its location on a south-facing slope suggests possible ceremonial alignment or strategic visibility.

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