What is recorded here

A large rectangular boulder rests on five stones in rough pasture, its smooth top barely eight centimetres above the ground. The structure faces north toward Ardgroom Harbour, with a separate standing stone set half a metre behind it. This is a burial place where the dead were laid beneath rock rather than built into chamber, simple and deliberate on the lower slopes of Tooreennamna Mountain.

In rough hill pasture, on the lower N-facing slopes of Tooreennamna Mountain and with views N over Ardgroom Harbour. A rectangular boulder (1.05m N-S; 0.8m E-W; H 0.45m), orientated NNE-SSW, rests on five support-stones, one on the N side, two on the W side and two on the E side, one of which is augmented with a pad-stone. The largely smooth and level top of the boulder is 0.08m above the ground. There is a standing stone (CO102-040001-) 0.5m to the S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Boulder-burial; likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. This type of monument is significant as it reflects early funerary practices and megalithic construction in the region.

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