Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - boundary cairn
Streamhill East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Streamhill East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Boundary Cairn (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.31047, -8.57403
- SMR number
- CO008-023----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of five cairns (15191, 15193, 15195, 15192) near top of Carron Mountain (see 11813), marking the Cork-Limerick border. Cairn (3.5m N-S; 3m E-W; H 0.6m) is covered in grass and heather; several large stones can be seen protruding through overgrowth.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.