What is recorded here

No one knows whose bones sleep beneath the grass, but the 1842 surveyor drew a perfect square around the forgotten dead. Geometry often serves as a container for human loss when memory fails. The field corner holds a buried life that measurement could capture but never understand.

Marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map as square area (c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W) in corner of field, defined by broken line. No visible surface trace. 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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