Abstract: A cast cylinder head for an internal-combustion engine, in which the charge cycle ducts have a fluctuating duct offset relative to the valve opening caused by the casting technique. Proximate the opening, the charge cycle ducts are provided with a machining allowance which increases toward the duct end and are machined there in a cutting manner so that the interior surface of the charge cycle ducts changes in each case without an offset into the valve opening. In order to achieve a simple tool guiding and nevertheless a machining which is advantageous to the flow, a compensating groove is arranged in the machining allowance of the charge cycle ducts which has a flat V-shaped cross-section and extends in the circumferential direction, specifically--relative to the flow direction--at least in the area of a convex course of the duct wall. The groove flanks have a convex cross-section and are curved to be as free of flow separations as possible.