What is recorded here

Ormond's Island still holds a boulder burial where Kenmare Bay meets the sky. A sandstone block rests on three hidden stones, its flat top sloping west like a table set for one. The field boundary has swallowed part of the chamber, yet the shape remains clear enough to imagine hands arranging stone before written history existed.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope at the SW side of Ormond's Island in Kenmare Bay. A sandstone boulder (1.4m E-W; 1.15m N-S; T 0.55m), partially incorporated into a field boundary to the N, rests on at least three support-stones (H 0.5m at E; H 0.4m at W). The flat-topped upper surface of the boulder slopes down gently to the W. 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 in Coornagillagh is a prehistoric funerary monument, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its representation of early burial practices and the use of large stones in ritual contexts in southwest Ireland.

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