What is recorded here

In rough pasture, on top of a ridge of outcropping rock on a SW-facing slope overlooking Lough Inchiquin. This, the E of two boulder-burials, consists of a flat-topped boulder (1.6m x 1.15m; T 0.8m) resting on three support-stones. The second boulder-burial (KE101-059002-) stands 2m to the W and a standing stone (KE101-059003-) is c. 4m to the SW. 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

Boulder-burial in Cooryeen is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. It represents a distinctive form of burial associated with the use of large, flat-topped capstones supported by smaller stones, reflecting local mortuary practices in upland western Ireland.

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