What is recorded here

Cooryeen holds two boulder-burials above Lough Inchiquin, where one flat-topped stone rests on four supports and two pads while its partner stands two metres east. The ridge catches southwest light, marks a chosen burial place, and still keeps the dead close to the water they likely watched.

In rough pasture, on top of a ridge of outcropping rock on a SW-facing slope overlooking Lough Inchiquin. This, the W of two boulder-burials, consists of a flat-topped boulder (1.8m x 1.3m; T 0.8m) resting on four support-stones and two pad-stones. The second boulder-burial (KE101-059001-) stands c. 2m to the E and a standing stone (KE101-059003-) is 2m to the S. 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 Cooryeen is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its construction reflects a tradition of rock-art and megalithic burial practices in the western Irish landscape, associated with ritual and ancestor veneration.

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