What is recorded here

Seven people lie slab-lined in Gaggan, spaced like beads on a dark eastern string. Raftery measured the row in 1941, but the chamber still refuses to say whether those were kin, tenants or victims. Cork soil keeps that much of its edge hidden.

No exact location. Long cist cemetery; seven extended burials, each 1.8m apart, long axis E-W, reported by Raftery (1941, 303). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 452. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 August 2012

Slab-lined burial in Gaggan is a Neolithic long cist tomb, dating to the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE. It is significant as part of a cemetery reflecting early communal burial practices in the region.

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