Boulder-burial in Ballycommane, County Cork

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What is recorded here

On top of a low E-W ridge overlooking pasture to S of Four Mile Water river. Quartz conglomorate (1.8m x 1.6m; T 0.8m) resting above three supportstones. Pair of standing stones (CO131-005001-) 2.2m to ENE and boulder burial excavated in 1989 (pers. comm. Dr. W.F. O'Brien). No pit, human remains or finds recovered. (O Nualláin 1978, 93, no.27) See O'Brien 1990, 14-15 - 'Excavations 1989'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO131-005002

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