Burren (Central II)

Nearest town:
Swanlinbar (14km E)
OS reference:
H075353
OS sheet:
26
Latitude:
54° 15' 58.96 N
Longitude:
7° 53' 5.57 W
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Image of Burren (Central II) (Burial Chamber) by CianMcLiam

Better preservation makes this pair of cup and rings unmistakeable (smaller design hard to make out just above the larger). From a boulder lying along the path to the boulder burial.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Sep 24, 2007
Image of Burren (Central II) (Burial Chamber) by CianMcLiam

Are they? Aren’t they? The cup and rings identified on the top surface of the boulder burial.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Sep 24, 2007

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Burren (Central II)

CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Sep 26, 2007

This is a monster of a boulder, propped up on limestone pedestals and partly embedded in the hillside. Was it a burial chamber? Hard to tell, it certainly does just look like a larger version of the many similar sandstone boulder on pedestals seen around the park.

The cup and rings do look pretty convincing from some angles, this is quite a soft stone so perhaps they are just very badly weathered. There definitely is a pair of cup and rings on a small boulder further up the path from the track, even in the unfavourable sunlight and bleached texture of the stone, some carving work was noticeable.

Burren (Central II)

ryaner
ryaner Mar 11, 2007

This is signposted off the trail as a ‘Boulder Burial Chamber’. I’m a little dubious about that classification. There are many large sandstone erratics in Burren (some of them signposted as well), some having landed on pavement similar to the stones propping this monster up. A little research is needed to see if a burial was actually found at this site.
The stone itself must be at least 50 tons. It’s so heavy that the corner stone holding it in place is not just fracturing so much as shattering slowly. There are more stones at the back of the ‘burial’ that seem to form a sort of cist. Hmmmmm...

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