What is recorded here

Boulder-burial in Mill Little holds two or three stone chambers beside a five-stone circle and pair of standing stones, 50m west of Cooleenlemane river in County Cork. One cover-stone, 1.5m long and 1.2m thick, still rests on three supports; another, 1.9m long, lies displaced beside its supports 4.5m south. The flat rough pasture has kept this buried chamber complex intact through centuries of weather and forgetting.

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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