What is recorded here

Two massive boulders rest inside a stone circle on the Maughnaclea Hills, overlooking the Owngar valley. One cover stone has slipped aside, exposing a single support beneath, as if the earth exhaled or a curious hand pried it open. The dead probably slept under these heavy rocks while the living walked past them in pasture, marking memory with stone rather than forgetting it in soil.

In pasture, on shoulder on N slopes of Maughnaclea Hills, overlooking Owngar river valley. Two boulder-burials (see CO106-016002-), placed within multiple-stone circle (CO106-016001-). Boulder (1.5m x 1.35m; 0.6m T) to N is centrally placed within circle; two support stones visible beneath. Cover-stone (1.5m x 1m; 0.6m T) of S boulder-burial is displaced; single support stone exposed beside it to W. (O Nualláin 1984a, 92, no. 23; Roberts 1988, ch. 5, no. 36). 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 Maughanaclea is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its placement within a multiple-stone circle suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, reflecting burial practices and landscape use in the Bronze Age.

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