
What is recorded here
In cut-away bog c. 100m from shore on S side of Coulagh Bay. Flat-topped boulder (1.4m x 1.1m; T 0.6m) resting above three support stones. Standing stone (CO114-04602-) 1.7m to S.
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 Urhin is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its location in a peat-cut area and association with a standing stone suggest ritual or commemorative significance within a coastal landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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