What is recorded here

Moorland on Nowen Hill still holds a 2.7-metre wedge tomb, its overlapping stones sloping from northeast to southwest like a ridge waiting for rain. Two stray stones brace opposite ends, as if someone finished the work and stepped back to judge it. People may have laid dead there before written memory, then forgotten the names while the hillkept the shape.

In moorland on S lower slopes of Nowen Hill. Low wall (L 2.7m) formed by double row of contiguous or overlapping stones; aligned NE-SW; decreasing in height from NE->SW. Stone set at right angles to N side of wall at NE end; second stone to S side of wall at SW end. 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

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its construction and alignment are typical of funerary monuments in the Atlantic Seaboard tradition of Ireland and western Britain.

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