Boulder-burial in Cappaleigh North — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Cappaleigh North holds a flat-topped slab resting on hidden support stones at the foot of Mass Mount. A separate standing stone waits fifteen metres east, marking a boundary or guiding a forgotten ritual. The isolation suggests deliberate placement rather than casual dumping. Someone shaped that pasture into a chamber for death or memory, then left the mountain to keep the secret.

On isolated patch of pasture at SW foot of Mass Mount. Flat-topped slab (2.1m x 2.1m; T 0.8m) resting above at least three support stones. Standing stone (CO116-00702-) 1.5m to E. (Ó Nualláin 1978, 91, no. 20) 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 Cappaleigh North is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its significance lies in its association with ritual burial practices and the use of large stone elements typical of the period in the region.

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