Boulder-burial in Uragh

In rough pasture, c. 10m SW of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-025001-) and boulder-burial (KE101-025002-). This, the N of three boulder-burials, consists of a boulder (max. dim. 1.58m) resting on at least one support-stone, which is partially obscured by peat. The two other boulder-burials (KE101-025005-, KE101-025006-) stand 1.5m to the SE and SW, respectively. (Twohig 1987, 115) 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 regional variant of burial practice in the Uragh area, where large stones were used to mark individual or small group burials, often associated with ritual landscapes including stone circles.