Boulder-burial in Uragh

In rough pasture on a terrace of a N-facing slope overlooking Lough Inchiquin. This boulder-burial stands in the centre of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-025001-) and consists of a flat-topped boulder (1.65m x 1.2m; T 0.5m) supported on four stones, three of which are small. The boulder is orientated NE-SW and some small cupmarks and linear incised markings, V-shaped in section, were noted on it. A fulacht fia (KE101-025004-), abuts the axial stone of the stone circle and a group of three boulder-burials (KE101-025003-, KE101-025005-, KE101-025006-) stand c. 8-10m SW. (Twohig 1987, 114-15) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Boulder-burial in Uragh is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. It represents a distinctive form of burial associated with the megalithic traditions of the Uragh area, reflecting local mortuary practices and landscape use during the Bronze Age.