What is recorded here

Boulder-burial in Gorteanish, County Cork: a split rectangular cover-stone, one section still angled above three support-stones, standing one metre south of a multiple-stone circle. The break may have come from age, weather or human force; the stones do not say which. A possible second boulder-burial waits six metres north inside the circle, as if the place kept more than one dead person or one kind of memory.

Standing 1m S of a multiple-stone circle (CO130-016----) this boulder-burial consists of a cover-stone split into two pieces. The original block would have been rectangular in shape (1.30m x 1.20m; H 0.55). One section lies at an angle above three support-stones. A possible boulder-burial (CO130-016001-) stands 6m to the N within 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 burial monument, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its association with a multiple-stone circle suggests ritual or funerary significance within a broader ceremonial landscape.

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