What is recorded here

Kilmore holds four boulder-burials in an eight-metre line across open pasture, giving the dead a visible address beneath the wide sky. The second stone narrows toward the top like a shoulder lifted in the dark, close enough to touch the first and near enough to the third for one hand to span the gap. People may have walked this short line at dusk, touching each boulder as they passed, making the dead into a row that could be counted and remembered.

In level pasture with excellent views in all directions. The second of four boulder-burials (CO132-029002-, CO132-029004-, CO132-029005-) set in a NE-SW line (total length 8m). This stands 0.1m NE of the first (CO132-029002-) and consists of an irregularly shaped boulder (1.3m x 1.25m; H 0.9m) which narrows towards the top. No support-stones are visible. Another boulder-burial (CO132-029004-) is 1m to the NE and a standing stone (410, vol. 1) is c. 7m to the SE. 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, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. These tombs are significant as they represent an early form of megalithic funerary practice in the region.

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