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In pasture, atop hillock. Levelled; Windele (Borlase 1897, 14) gives brief description and sketch of tumulus containing 'a large cist in the centre'. According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, uncovered large stone cist [CO077-009002-] 'eight feet square', containing large quantities of human bones; smaller 'stone chest' in same mound also contained two human skeletons and a third (18 inches square) contained 'slack lime'; cists broken up but bones 'replaced in their old sites'. One of three tumuli in same townland; one in same field (CO077-010---) 150m to ENE, second (CO077-00801-) lies 350m to SW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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