Ballycommane
The Boulder Burial (also Boulder Tomb) in the Irish townland of Ballycommane ( Irish Baile Uí Chomáin ), near Durrus in County Cork , and the associated stone pair were excavated and restored in 1989. The complex did not contain any datable remains, although there was a small stone box near the north-east stone and a ritual deposit under a menhir .
The boulder tomb and the two menhirs lie on an east-west ridge. The special feature of this boulder tomb is the use of a capstone made of white quartz . This lies on three smaller stones, as is usual with a structure of this type. The hole and the two grooves on the eastern corner of the boulder are interesting. Similar furrows have been found at Maughanasilly and possibly at Kealkill . The two cuboid, about one meter high menhirs have flat tops.
Both likely Bronze Age monuments appear to belong to a local group. The boulder tomb is the middle of three. About 4.0 km southwest is Coolcoulaghta and 6.1 km northeast is Cullomane East. The nearest pair of stones is located about 2.2 km to the northeast in Parkana, and another is located 6.3 km to the southwest in Coolcoulaghta. There are three rows of stones, the next is 1.5 km away at Maulinward .
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- The pair of stones engl. and picture
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Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 10.4 " N , 9 ° 28 ′ 46.4" W.