What is recorded here

Cloghmore is a boulder-burial in County Cork where a flat-topped stone rests on three supports. It marks a dead body beneath rock and grass. The chamber may have held someone the region loved or feared. That is why the stones still stand instead of rolling away.

On level pasture. Flat-topped boulder (2.9m x 1.9m; T 1m) resting on three support sotnes. (O Nualláin 1978, 94, no. 30; Roberts 1988, Ch. 3, no. 20) 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

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BC). It represents a megalithic tradition associated with early communal burial and ritual practices in Ireland.

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