What is recorded here

Five stones and a fallen slab still mark a narrow chamber in the forestry hills, built wide at one end and tightened at the other like a wedge driven into earth. It sits twenty metres from bare rock, perhaps chosen because the ground itself seemed ready to hold what people wanted forgotten or remembered. The chamber is small enough to enter, dark enough to swallow a voice, and old enough that no name remains behind the stones.

In undulating hilly terrain, in an area of felled coniferous forestry. This wedge tomb is situated 20m N of a large expanse of outcropping rock. The remains comprise a gallery (L 2.73m; Wth 1.05m at W, narrowing to 0.95m at E), aligned WSW-ENE, represented by two sidestones at N, three to the S, and a single backstone at E. Two longitudinally set jambstones stand inside the W end. The gallery is surrounded by outer-walling, two stones to the N, one to the E, and four along the S side. A partially exposed prostrate slab (1.35m x 0.8m) lying immediately outside the S outer-walling may be a displaced roofstone. A second slab (L 1m; Wth 0.47m) lies in the gallery area. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its location near outcropping rock suggests possible ritual or symbolic alignment with the landscape, typical of wedge tombs in the region.

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