What is recorded here

Boulder-burial in Mill Little, County Cork, Ireland: flat rough pasture 50m W of Cooleenlemane river. Two boulder burials and a possible third join a five-stone circle and pair of standing stones. One 1.5m x 1.3m cover rests on three supports; another 1.4m x 0.9m boulder lies 4.5m south; displaced 1.9m x 1.5m cover and two supports mark the third. People may have laid the dead beneath these stones, then walked past them in ordinary life.

In flat area of rough pasture c. 50m W of Cooleenlemane river. Two boulder burials and possible third form part of complex which includes five-stone circle (CO105-00404-) and pair of standing stones (CO105-00405-). One stands 2m SW of axial stone; cover-stone (1.5m x 1.3m; T 1.2m) rests on three support stones. Another boulder (1.4m x 0.9m; T 0.9m) 4.5m to S; possible cover-stone of boulder burial; no support stones visible. Two support stones of another boulder burial c. 4.5m to S; displaced cover-stone (1.9m x 1.5m; T 1.3m) lies beside them to S. (O Nualláin 1978, 87, no. 11) 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 Mill Little is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its association with a stone circle and standing stones suggests it is part of a ritual or ceremonial landscape of regional significance.

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