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Boulder-burial in Uragh

Boulder-burial

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Boulder-burial in Uragh is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. It represents a regional variant of burial practice in the Uragh area, where large stones were used to mark individual or small group burials, often associated with ritual landscapes including stone circles.

What is recorded here

In rough pasture, c. 10m SW of a multiple-stone circle (KE101-025001-) and boulder-burial (KE101-025002-). This, the N of three boulder-burials, consists of a boulder (max. dim. 1.58m) resting on at least one support-stone, which is partially obscured by peat. The two other boulder-burials (KE101-025005-, KE101-025006-) stand 1.5m to the SE and SW, respectively. (Twohig 1987, 115) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
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