What is recorded here

Cloghmore is a boulder-burial on the east side of Roaringwater Bay, where a rounded stone rests across three supports in open pasture. It marks a dead body, a family line or a boundary forgotten by the living. The bay still roars past it, changing the edge of the land while the stones keep their shape.

In pasture on E side of Roaringwater Bay. Boulder with somewhat rounded top surface (2.6m x 1.5m; T 0.9m) rests above three support stones. (O Nualláin 1978, 94, no. 29; 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 BCE). It represents a megalithic tradition associated with early communal burial and ritual practices in southwest Ireland.

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