Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Tooreenglanahee, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreenglanahee
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galláin (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16656, -9.20928
- SMR number
- CO021-051001-
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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 pasture, on crest of low ridge on E side of valley of River Blackwater. Only SW stone of three remains. Aligned ENE-WSW, it is 1.2m L, 0.6m T and 2m H. Ó Drisceoil (1934, 23) records measurements of second stone as 0.8m L, 0.55m T and 1.1m H, and of third stone as 0.9m L, 0.65m T and 1m H. Bowman (1934, 645) recorded 14ft 9in between first and second stones, 5ft 7in between second and third; he was informed locally that the two smaller stones were covered by bog until mid-19th century. According to local information (1984), removed c. 1940; old memory that five stones stood on site. Ring-barrow (11877) c. 30m to SSW. (Ó Nualláin 1988, 231, no. 3)
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.