Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Farahy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farahy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23410, -8.43589
- SMR number
- CO018-042----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 reclaimed pasture. Rectangular limestone block immediately NE of limestone outcrop (H c. 2m); block recently disturbed by machinery but subsequently replaced in original location, though upturned. Known locally as mass rock.
See also:
June 2000, unpublished archaeological assessment report by Eachtra Archaeological Projects.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.