What is recorded here

Currakeal and Canrooska still divide the hill pasture where a flat rectangular stone rests on four supports, joining a nearby row, circle and cairn in a sparse funeral cluster. The chamber faces Barraboy Mountain, giving the dead a view across the valleys while the living perhaps marked this saddle because it could be seen from a distance. Stone such as that does not arrive by accident; someone carried, tilted and padded it before written memory began.

In rough hill pasture just NE of a saddle separating the townlands of Currakeal and Canrooska with views to Barraboy Mountain and nearby valleys. A flat-topped rectangular cover-stone (1.5m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE; H 0.9m) resting on four support-stones augmented by a pad-stone on the N stone. A stone row (146, vol. 1) stands 49m to SW and another stone row (140, vol. 1), a five-stone circle (65, vol. 1) and a cairn (839, vol. 1) are located 95-100m to the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Boulder-burial in Currakeal is a megalithic tomb, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its association with early funerary practices and the use of large stones in burial monuments across the Irish landscape.

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