What is recorded here

Half-buried on Ballyrisode’s inner strand, two angled slabs and a shallow stone box wait for the tide to swallow them. They may have heated water for hunters or held dead for the sea, but the beach keeps both possibilities alive. When the water rises, the stones disappear; when it retreats, they reappear like a memory the coast refuses to forget.

On mid-foreshore at low water on S side of Ballyrisode beach/strand (inner beach) to immediate SE of carpark; site would cover at mid to high water. Eroded and well buried, so difficult to assess nature and extent. 2 upright slabs at slight angles to each other facing seaward and may have been a third stone but is now collapsed; 1m to south 3 long slabs enclosing a rectangular box-like stone setting; enclosed on 3 sides and open on side facing seaward. May be an earlier site reused for later burials. Potential fulacht fiadh stone trough or a cist burial. Compiled by: Connie Kelleher Date of upload: 17 January 2019

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