What is recorded here

Knockoura holds a flat stone chamber where tree roots have pierced the capstone, turning burial into soil and memory into wood. The slab still rests on three supports, but the forest has claimed the dead and the living alike. What was hidden beneath rock has become visible through roots, as if the earth stopped keeping secrets and began sharing them.

In forestry W of Knockoura. Large flat slab (1.6m x 1.76m; 0.25m T), resting on three support stones. Roots of trees growing into capstone. 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 Knockoura is a Neolithic funerary monument, dating to approximately 4000–2500 BCE. Its construction reflects early megalithic traditions in Ireland, indicating ritual practices associated with burial and ancestor veneration.

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