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<< Our Photo Pages >> Clonleigh Boulder Burial - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Cork

Submitted by GaelicLaird on Monday, 10 May 2021  Page Views: 1003

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Clonleigh Boulder Burial
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 3.099 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Co. Cork Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Kinsale
Latitude: 51.693107N  Longitude: 8.486199W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Clonleigh Boulder Burial
Clonleigh Boulder Burial submitted by GaelicLaird : Looking south west out to sea. It was a bright sunny day when I visited the site and this large quartz boulder was shining like a beacon in the sun. Quite spectacular. Photo taken April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Boulder-burials are classified as a large boulder or capstone of megalithic proportions, resting on a number of supporting stones, usually three or four in number, which, in most cases, do not form a recognisable chamber structure. Excavations suggest a Bronze Age date for this burial monument (c. 2400-500 BC). Here a quartz boulder 2.64m x 1.68m and 1.45m tall rests on a support stone to the west and on a bed of smaller stones, a quartz stone lies under the eastern side.

A Standing stone (CO0125-025---) once stood close by. Officially recorded as monument number CO125-010----

In pasture.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994).

The mentioned standing stone CO0125-25 is no longer present (per visit Apil 2021).
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Clonleigh Boulder Burial
Clonleigh Boulder Burial submitted by GaelicLaird : The main support stone at ground level on the western end. Photo taken April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clonleigh Boulder Burial
Clonleigh Boulder Burial submitted by GaelicLaird : One of the supporting stones visible at ground level. Photo taken April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Clonleigh Boulder Burial by Anonymous on Friday, 04 June 2021
Can ground penetrating radar be employed for non intrusive investigation here?
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Re: Clonleigh Boulder Burial by Anonymous on Sunday, 16 May 2021
Is is not possible that this stone resting as it is on small stones is nothing other than a glacial erratic?
The smaller so called support stones could merely be smaller fragments from the time of the the glacial retreats across Northern Europe.
Perhaps there is evidence supporting an actual burial?
Dr John P Nightingale
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    Re: Clonleigh Boulder Burial by GaelicLaird on Sunday, 13 June 2021
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    Hello John. I think that it is unlikely, although of course it may be possible.

    Very few of these sites have been excavated but they were first recognised as a distinctive class of monument in 1975 by S O'Nuallain of the Ordnance Survey Office in Dublin who suggested that they form an important element of the Cork-Kerry stone circle complex. The site at Bohonagh near Rosscarbery in Co Cork was excavated in 1961 and cremated human bone was found and in 1975 the term Boulder Burial was assigned to this type of site.

    O'Nuallain commented that as the sites are built above ground and are not enclosed in a cairn or mound this distinguishes them from megalithic tombs. The lack of a formal chamber structure in the majority of examples and the likely intention that the structures be visible led him to conclude that the sites should be regarded as monuments to mark a burial rather than as receptacles to contain funerary deposits.This would be in accord with the free standing monumental nature of the stone circles, standing stones and stone alignments which occur in profusion throughout the Cork and Kerry region.

    Two further excavations of similar sites in the West Carbery area of West Cork were excavated in 1988 - 89 by W O'Brien of the Dept of Archaeology of UCG and no cremated remains were found at either site although a series of post holes were discovered at one of the sites.

    O'Brien concluded that the close spatial association between these monuments and stone circles argues that their function was largely of a ritualistic and commemorative nature. Radiocarbon dating undertaken in association with O'Briens excavations led him to conclude that the sites dated to the period traditionally defined as the Middle Bronze Age in Ireland.

    A large number of these sites are found in association with other sites; some located in the middle of stone circles, others often close to standing stones and stone rows. In the case of Clonleigh, we know there was a standing stone located close by in the same field however this no longer present.

    I have visited many sites of this type and can state that imo the Clonleigh site shares the same characteristics as other sites in this category.

    There's some good examples of this type of site outlined in the blog here:

    https://roaringwaterjournal.com/2016/04/25/boulder-burials-a-misnamed-monument/
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