Boulder-burial in Gorteanish — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half a metre high and nearly two metres wide, the boulder lies inside the stone circle like a chest waiting to be opened. Six metres south, another burial stone marks the edge of the same forgotten place. Whatever lived beneath them has stopped answering, but the stones still arrange themselves around the shape of that loss.

A large boulder (1.80m x 1.60m; H 0.50m) located in the NW quadrant of a multiple-stone circle (CO130-016---) may be the cover-stone of a boulder-burial. No support-stones are visible. A second boulder-burial (CO130-043---) stands 6m to the S, immediately outside the stone circle. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Boulder-burial in Gorteanish is a megalithic tomb, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its association with a multiple-stone circle, suggesting ritual or ceremonial use in a prehistoric landscape.

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