What is recorded here

Boulder-burial in Uragh, County Kerry, Ireland, consists of a 1.5m boulder resting on a support-stone partially hidden by peat. It sits southeast of a tight group of three burials, with companions standing 1.5m north and 1m west, about 10m southwest of a multiple-stone circle. The stones may have marked a respected person, a family line or a boundary between lived land and remembered land.

In rough pasture, c. 10m SW of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-025001-) and boulder-burial (KE101-025002-). This, the SE of a group of three boulder-burials, consists of a boulder (max. dim. 1.5m), resting on at least one support-stone, which is partially obscured by peat. The two other boulder-burials (KE101-025003-, KE101-025006-) stand 1.5m to the N and 1m to the W, 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, typical of the early to middle Bronze Age in the Irish uplands. It represents a form of single-chambered stone tomb associated with ritual and burial practices of early farming communities.

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