What is recorded here

Four boulder burials stand in pasture near the southern foot of Maulin mountain, three forming a tight triangle while the fourth lies twenty metres away inside a field fence. They overlook Bear Haven, suggesting the dead watched the water long after the living stopped watching them. The fence monster still wears its ancient stone, proving that even human boundaries must bend around what was buried first.

Four boulder burials, in pasture, atop terrace near S foot of Maulin mountain overlooking Bear Haven. Three boulder burial stand 2m apart in form of equilateral triangle. Fourth lies c. 20m to SW incoporated into field fence. Three support stones visible beneath cover-stone (2.2m x 1.6m;T 0.9m) of E boulder burial in triangular group. Two support stones visible beneath cover-stone (1.7m x 1.3m; T 0.5m) of N monument. Single support stone visible beneath cover-stone (1.5m x 1.5m; T 0.7m) of W monument. Two support stones visible beneath cover-stone (1.9m x 1.7m; T 1m) of fourth boulder burial in fence. (O Nualláin 1978, 90, no.18) 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 Derrymihin West is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its arrangement suggests ritual or social significance, possibly linked to territorial markers or ancestor veneration practices in the landscape.

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