What is recorded here

Boulder-burial in Ballyroe is a chambered tomb where a large pyrimidal boulder rests above hidden support stones on the north side of a low hill. It overlooks the Roury river valley and Corran Lake, marking a place where people once buried their dead beneath flat pasture. The removed fence no longer marks its edge, but the stone remains clear enough to imagine hands placing it there long before written records.

In flat pasture, on N side of low hill overlooking Roury river valley and Corran Lake. Pyrimidal boulder (2.5m x 1.4m; 1.35m T) rests above at least two support stones. Fence which abutted N and S now removed. Boulder burial (CO133-089----) stands 65m NW. (Roberts 1988, Ch. 2, no. 11) 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 Ballyroe is a megalithic tomb, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its association with early funerary practices and the use of large stones in burial monuments across the Irish landscape.

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