Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Brigown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brigown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Finnchus Stone (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.25783, -8.25761
- SMR number
- CO019-031----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In mid-stream, at S side of Ballynamona Bridge and c. 450m to ESE of Brigown early ecclesiastical site (13877). Large millstone, probably runner stone from a horizontal mill. Named after 'St. Fanahan, Patron Saint of Mitchelstown and surrounding parish of Brigown' (Power 1980, 7). Power (ibid., 10), recounts legend that the saint was taken prisoner in Clonmel, chained to two millstones, but was given the strength to roll the stones back to Brigown. One stone broke on the way, the second remained in the river after he was set free by a stranger on a white horse (ibid.).
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.