What is recorded here

In rolling pasture on gentle N-facing slope of low hill. Subrecangular boulder (1.8m x 1.5m; 0.8m) resting above four support stones. 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). This megalithic monument represents an early form of communal burial and ritual practice in the Irish landscape.

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