What is recorded here

Boulder-burial in Mill Little is a chambered grave where large flat stones still bridge dark holes in the pasture, joining a five-stone circle and standing stones beside the Cooleenlemane river. One roof stone rests on three supports, another lies displaced beside its broken chamber, and a third may hide underneath grass and memory. People may have laid the dead beneath stone when the land was young, then walked past the place for generations until the graves became ordinary marks in the field.

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 significance in the prehistoric period.

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