What is recorded here

Knocks holds three boulder burials arranged in a tight triangle within rolling pasture, each heavy stone resting on hidden or visible supports. They stand eight metres from a ringfort, suggesting the dead remained close enough to watch the living continue. The stones may have marked ancestors, offenders or founders, but their names disappeared while the geometry remained.

On level patch of ground in rolling pasture. Three boulder burials set in form of triangle c. 1.5m apart. Boulder to NE (1.8m x 1.7m; T 0.9m) rests above four support stones. Subcircular slab to SW (diam. 2.4m; T 0.6m) rests above at least five support stones. Two support stones are visible beneath the cover stone (2m x 1.3m; T 0.65m) of NW monument. Ringfort (CO122-007004-) 8m to E. 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 Knocks is a Bronze Age megalithic tomb, likely a form of portal tomb or court tomb variant. Its construction reflects early ritual burial practices in the Irish landscape, though its specific typology remains ambiguous due to limited surviving features.

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