What is recorded here

Cill field in County Cork keeps a buried chamber beneath ordinary pasture. The 1842 survey marked an oval enclosure thirty metres long, but no wall or trench remains for a modern visitor to touch. Hartnett found only a barely perceptible raising of the ground, yet the name cill field still points to the hidden chamber and the dead who filled it before the grass forgot them.

Shown as oval enclosure defined by dotted line (c. 30m NE-SW; c. 12m NW-SE) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In pasture. No visible surface trace. Field known as "cill field". Hartnett (1939, 303) noted 'barely perceptible raising of the ground at the spot'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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