Carntierna Hillfort

South of Fermoy town stands Corrin Hill, part of the Nagle mountain range, atop of which sits Carntierna cairn and hillfort surrounded by forestry. The Bronze Age oval cairn, a mass heap of stone, was said to have been 19ft high in 1886. In 1832, after the removal of several hundred tons of stone a cist was found in the cairn. This cist contained two chambers, the first had a fragment of an urn...