What is recorded here

Five stones circle a chamber three metres deep beside the River Lee, two fallen but the shape unbroken. The chamber is narrow enough that a person standing inside would touch cool stone on both sides, and the river bends around the pasture like water remembering the shape. The dolmen does not need a door or a story strung across it. It is a small room the land kept private, waiting for someone to sit inside and stop pretending the world is new.

In rolling pasture, on N side and in bend of River Lee. Circle complete; W entrance stone and E side stone are fallen. Orthostats are 0.9m to 1.6m L, 0.45m to 0.7m T and 0.6m to 0.9m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned N-S, is c. 3m. (O Nualláin 1984a, 37, no. 70) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Dolmen, Rosnascalp is likely from the Neolithic period, c. 4000–2500 BCE, and would have functioned as a collective burial or ceremonial site. Its orientation and positioning near the River Lee may reflect ritual or symbolic associations with water and the landscape.

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