What is recorded here

Lackaroe holds a massive boulder inside a narrow circle of set stones on a SW-facing slope above the Sheen River. The burial still stands in open pasture, preserving a chamber built around one great rock rather than a long stone box. People may have placed a body beneath that boulder, used the circle as a marker for a dead person, or believed the stone itself contained life. The chamber has no visible support, yet the arrangement remains clear enough to suggest intention instead of ordinary rockfall.

In pasture, on the shoulder of a SW-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Sheen River. A boulder (1.35m x 1m; T 0.55m) stands just S of the centre of a multiple-stone circle (KE093-050001-) and is surrounded by a series of set stones (dims. L 0.3-0.6m; T 0.25-0.35m; H 0.15-0.45m), six of which form an outer circular arrangement (diam. 2.8m). No support-stones are visible. An assortment of small stones, including some quartz, is scattered on the ground nearby. 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 Lackaroe is a Bronze Age funerary monument, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its placement within a stone circle suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, reflecting burial practices and landscape use in prehistoric Ireland.

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