Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
According to Smith (1750, Vol. 2, 410-11), 'in the year 1737, three large urns were discovered near Castle-saffron...placed in a kind of triangle in the earth about 100 yards from [a ringfort]; ...made of a fine clay...which soon mouldered in the air...they had a rude kind of carved work around the rims,...about sixteen inches in diameter, as was...bottom; but the middle of the side about two feet, and each urn was four feet high. In one...was...skeleton of a man,...ribs and smaller bones...bundled up,..tied with copper wire rusted green, as were...thighs, arms, etc...skull...placed near...mouth of...urn; none of these...had passed the fire. In second urn...a substance like honey, supposed to be...flesh; ..in third, small quantity of copper pieces...of an irregular shape...void of any inscription or stamp.' According to Waddell (1990, 60), 'could conceivable be a garbled account of a normal urn burial', but Macalister (1928, 130) interpreted it as a 'jar-burial'. Exact location not known.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
The map shows the centre of the officially named townland area, not the monument. The government record does not identify the exact monument point.