Boulder-burial in Ardgroom Outward — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ardgroom Outward holds a boulder burial where a flat slab rests above three support stones at the foot of Tooth Mountain. The chamber sits in open pasture near a larger stone circle, waiting for someone willing to enter its darkness. What the builders hid there is no longer certain, but the shape still points to death, memory and the risk of forgetting.

In pasture atop knoll at NW foot of Tooth Mountain. Flat-topped slab (2.2m x 1.8m; T 0.35m) resting above three support stones. Multiple-stone circle(CO102-010---) 250m to N. (O Nualláin 1978, 87, no. 10) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Boulder-burial in Ardgroom Outward is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. It represents a regional variant of single-chambered stone tombs and provides insight into burial practices in the western Irish landscape.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.