Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Glenfield South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenfield South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galláin (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.27205, -8.81331
- SMR number
- CO016-007----
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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
In flat pasture on W side and in headwaters of Awbeg River valley. Two stones stood 4.6m apart immediately E of low mound (diam. c. 6m; H 0.6m). North stone was 0.75m H x 0.9m x 0.6m. South stone was 1.37m H x 1.22m x 0.6m. Stones were removed and buried nearby in Spring 1977. No visible surface trace. (OS Memoranda 1932, A/93/6)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.