What is recorded here

Top of Corran Hill holds a cairn where an urn waited, covered in writing and filled with ashes and broken bone. The marks may have named the dead or recorded the journey that ended in fire. Either way, the hill kept the vessel safe while the world around it changed.

In cairn (CO133-079---) atop Corran Hill. Borlase (1897, 44) records an urn 'covered all over with writing' and filled with 'a quantity of ashes and fragments of bone'. 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

Urn burial in Corran is a Bronze Age funerary deposit, likely dating to between 2000 and 800 BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of an inscribed urn, which is rare in Irish prehistoric contexts and suggests possible cultural or symbolic practices related to the dead.

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