What is recorded here

Half a mile south of Fermoy, a narrow ditch curves around an urn burial that O'Kelly opened in 1952. The pit fitted one encrusted urn, inverted over the cremated bones of an adult, possibly male, while black ashes packed the space beside it. The ditch joins the ring barrow at both ends, tying the smaller burial to the larger mound as though death itself had drawn a circle wide enough to hold both memories.

On SW side of ring barrow (CO027-159---) and multiple cist cairn (CO027-069---). Excavated by O'Kelly (1952, 121-58) who describes pit just large enough to contain an Encrusted Urn inverted over cremated bones of adult, possibly male; urn packed around with black ashes; parts of second Encrusted Urn on edge of pit. Burial enclosed by short arc of fosse which joins with fosse of ringbarrow (CO027-159---) at either end; cutting of this extension fosse disturbed Food Vessel burial (CO027-160---). (Brindley et al. 1987/8, 15, fig. 2) 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

Urn burial in Moneen is a Bronze Age funerary deposit, dating to approximately 2000–1500 BCE. Its significance lies in its association with a ring barrow and multiple cist cairn, indicating a complex burial landscape and ritual practices of the period.

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