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Ros Ó gCairbre
Rosscarbery
Cairbre's wood
Ros Ó gCairbre, meaning 'Cairbre's wood,' represents one of Ireland's most historically significant early medieval settlements. The area was originally inhabited by the Corcu Loígde and later the Eóganachta. Neolithic portal dolmens and Bronze Age sites including the remarkable Drombeg Stone Circle (approximately 3000 years old with seventeen standing stones and a central cremation burial) demo...
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