What is recorded here

Boulder-burial in Ballycommane stands on a low ridge above the Four Mile Water river, where a large quartz conglomorate rests on three supportstones beside a pair of standing stones. Excavation in 1989 found no pit, bones or objects beneath the rock, denying the usual purpose of burial. The chamber may have marked a boundary, witnessed a seasonal event or simply excluded death from its own structure.

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'. 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 Ballycommane is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. It represents a regional variant of burial practice in which a large stone or boulder is placed above a substructure, often associated with single or multiple inhumations.

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