What is recorded here

Skahanagh North holds a tiny circular pit no wider than twenty-four centimetres, deep enough to conceal cremated bone from the world above. The road builders broke through soil that had kept this small death secret for generations, pulling the bones into light only because a bypass needed cutting through County Cork. The dead person never chose such a narrow jar for their ashes, yet the earth accepted the loss without complaint.

Archaeological excavation during the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass uncovered an isolated roughly circular pit (max. dims. 0.24m) containing cremated bone (Murphy 2006q, 76). 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 small pit-burial containing cremated remains, likely dating to the Early Medieval period; its isolated nature suggests a simple funerary practice, possibly related to local or peripheral burial customs.

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