What is recorded here

Baurearagh holds a flat sandstone boulder on three stones, overlooking the river and waiting for the dead to return beneath its edge. The south side has sunk into peat, suggesting the hill itself is forgetting the shape of the burial. A person may have stood there in rain, pointing at the ridge and saying that someone they loved is still kept inside the stone.

In rough pasture, on the crest of a ridge overlooking the Baurearagh River to the NW. A roughly rectangular flat-topped sandstone boulder (1.75m N-S; 1.45m E-W; T 0.5m) rests on three support-stones, the largest (H 0.5m) of which is under the NW corner. Three smaller stones are also visible under the boulder, but do not support it. The S side of the boulder is obscured by peat. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Boulder-burial, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. This type of monument represents an early funerary tradition in Ireland, reflecting local burial practices and stone monument construction techniques of the period.

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