What is recorded here

Boulder-burial in Clonglaskan, County Cork, Ireland: A two-metre boulder lies half-swallowed by earth, a flat slab leaning across it like a lid forced shut. Another boulder waits three and a half metres east, dumb and parallel. Together they mark a death so old it stopped being a person and became a shape the land remembers.

Boulder (2.05m x 1.3m; T 1m) with possible support stone protruding from under NE edge. SW slab of stone row (CO114-04002-) rests on boulder. Second boulder (2.2m x 1.3m) (CO114-040003-) lies 3.5m to E. (O Nualláin 1988, 236, no. 45) 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 Clonglaskan is a Neolithic funerary monument, likely dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. Its association with a stone row suggests it is part of a broader ritual landscape, reflecting early communal burial practices in the region.

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