What is recorded here

Cloghnamnafinna is a boulder-burial in County Cork where a rounded stone rests above six smaller stones near the top of a hill. It stands beside a radial cairn and joins a second boulder burial further away, forming a quiet line of markers across the pasture. The arrangement suggests people placed these stones to remember a life or claim a spot on the horizon.

In pasture, near top of hill. Rounded boulder (2.2m x 1.75m; c. 1.3m T) resting above six stones. Radial-stone cairn (CO083-061001-) stands 20m to NW; second boulder burial and anomalous stone group (CO083-059001-; CO083-05902-) c. 280m to NW. (O Nualláin 1978, 84, no. 4) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 or early Bronze Age. Its association with nearby radial-stone cairns and boulder burials suggests it is part of a wider ritual or funerary landscape.

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