What is recorded here

Ardaturrish More holds a small chamber where two uprights still carry a rounded boulder above a space barely wide enough for one person to crawl through. The roofstone dips like the keel of an overturned boat, forcing anyone who enters to bend beneath stone that has watched Glengarriff Harbour for generations. Locals call it an altar, which fits the shape: a place made for offering up pride, memory or fear.

On a flat-topped knoll with fine views overlooking Glengarriff Harbour, c. 2m SW of a townland boundary fence. The remains consist of a chamber (L 1.15m; Wth 0.75m), aligned NNW-SSE, comprising two roughly parallel uprights which support the roofstone - a rounded boulder (1.6m N-S; 1.8m E-W; T 0.5m); no closing stones are visible. The cross-section of the roofstone is shaped like an inverted triangle with the rounded apex pointing downwards into the chamber, at which point it is 0.6m above the ground surface. The roofstone is similar in many respects to those used to cover boulder-burials but the support-stones are more typical of a megalithic tomb. The local name for the tomb is 'altar'. A megalithic structure (CO105-076----) is located 2m to the N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Megalithic tomb in Ardaturrish More is a small chambered passage tomb, likely dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its location on a prominent knoll suggests it held ritual or communal significance for early farming communities in the region.

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