What is recorded here

Knockroe East holds a broken stone slab on a south-facing slope above Bantry Bay, leaning southeast with its southwest end snapped clean. The shape suggests a wedge tomb sidestone, but grass hides the proof and a smaller slab lies discarded beside it. Children’s burial grounds cluster within two hundred metres, implying the slope served life and death together before the tomb identity faded.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope overlooking the mouth of Bantry Bay. A stone slab (H 1.1m; 2.35m x 0.2m) is aligned NE-SW and leans to the SE. The top of the stone slopes down to the NE, except at the SW end, which appears to have been broken off. A smaller slab lies prostrate beside the SW end and further smaller broken stones are partially covered by grass along the SE side of the slab. The slab has the appearance of a sidestone of a wedge tomb, however, there is not enough surface evidence to confirm this. A standing stone (CO127-018----) is situated 80m to the WSW and there are two children's burial grounds nearby, one (CO127-044----) c. 50m to the NNE and the other (CO127-043----) 170m to the SW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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