What is recorded here

Seehaunnamnafinna is a cairn that vanished from one hilltop and reappeared on another within a century of mapping. The 1842 survey marked a rounded summit in Ballydague, but later maps moved the name eight hundred metres away, leaving the first hill blank and the second carrying a identity it may never have owned. The stones themselves are gone or hidden now, yet the name still drifts between places like a memory refusing to settle.

In commanding position, on summit of hill. Roughly circular cairn (24m N-S; 22m E-W; H 3.5m) with some stones removed on N side. 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

Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the earlier part of the Neolithic period in Ireland (c. 3700–2500 BCE). Its commanding hilltop position suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, typical of Neolithic funerary monuments in the region.

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