What is recorded here

Milane Hill carries a wedge tomb at its eastern edge, where ancient hands built a narrow chamber for the dead before wind turbines took the summit in 2000. The gallery stretches 4.4 metres, its stones leaning inward like a mouth half-open to the lowlands. What is missing has not vanished; it has simply stopped being visible. The tomb still points east, still holds its shape, still asks to be seen.

At the E end of the summit of Milane Hill with fine views over lowlands to the E. The ground rises to the WSW to the summit of the hill where wind turbines stand (erected in 2000). Only the W section of the gallery is exposed together with a single endstone (either a backstone or kerb) at the E of the monument. The total length of the monument to the endstone is 4.4m. Exposed stones indicate a gallery length of at least 2.3m. The gallery (Wth 1.07m at W, narrowing to 0.77m at the estimated centre) is aligned WSW-ENE and the W section is represented on each side by two sidestones and three outer-wall stones; the stones decrease in height from W to E. The W two outer-wall stones flanking the entrance are higher than their corresponding gallery sidestones. Cutway bog to the E of the monument is partly responsible for exposing the E endstone. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its location on a prominent hilltop suggests it was part of a wider ritual or funerary landscape, common in Atlantic Europe during this period.

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