I'm not sure about this being a boulder burial, but it could well be. It is certainly a glacial eratic that seems to have been manipulated. It is located on a steep slope with one edge resting on some exposed bedrock. The other edge is raised up on a small sandstone pillar making the upper surface level. There may be a small chamber-like construction tucked away underneath it, but it's hard to tell.
What is really interesting is that the upper surface seems to have some worn rock art motifs on it. Towards one edge there is a pair of cupmarks and on the far side there is a warn cup and ring motif. A rock that stands next to it is peppered with small weathered depressions that may or may not be natural.
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I'm still not 100% sure about the classification of this as a boulder burial, but I did encounter another site in the forest here that could be another example of a glacial eratic used as a boulder burial.
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The cup and ring motifs were uncovered and first seen by Gabriel Burns and Jim Nolan. Apparently there some similar motifs on a boulder nearby.
A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Barroe (Co. Sligo) |  Dunmanus (Co. Cork) |  Reanacaheragh (Co. Cork) |
 The Three Friars (Co. Kilkenny) |  Mill Little (Co. Cork) |
